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The Confederation of Kilkenny 1642-1649: Ireland's Lost Parliament
In 1642, as civil war engulfed the Three Kingdoms, Ireland's Catholic nobility, clergy, and Gaelic chieftains assembled in Kilkenny to form a rival government: the Confederate Catholics of Ireland. This episode examines how the Confederation tried to straddle royalism and Catholic self-rule, fielded armies under Owen Roe O'Neill and Thomas Preston, and eventually splintered into factions that made the Cromwellian conquest possible. We discuss the Confederation's oath, its fraught negotiations with Charles I and the Marquess of Ormond, the papal nuncio Giovanni Battista…
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