Reference: Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Society of Friends. Society of Friends, known as Quakers, Protestant denomination that arose in England in the mid-17th century. The movement began with radical English Puritans called Seekers, who rejected the Anglican church and other existing Protestant sects. They took their faith from itinerant … Read More

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_Connacht The Composition of Connacht, or Composition of Connaught and Thomond, was a 1585 agreement between, on the one hand, the Gaelic and Gaelicised chiefs of Connacht and Thomond and, on the other hand, the English Dublin Castle administration of the Kingdom of Ireland, which replaced the multiple existing levies with a single tax … Read More

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Wild_Geese Uniform and colonel’s flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century Portumna castle. Wild Geese heritage museum. The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 … Read More

Reference Wikipedia post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sarsfield,_1st_Earl_of_Lucan Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c. 1655 – August 1693) was an Irish army officer. Fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693 while serving in the French Royal Army, he died of his injuries several weeks later, and is now best remembered as an Irish patriot … Read More