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	Rathmines - Wiki Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rathmines is a suburb on the southside of Dublin.
		Rathmines is a town about 3 kilometres south of the city centre of Dublin City, the capital of the Republic of Ireland.
		Rathmines is the central urban area of south west Dublin comprising as far west as Kimmage and as far east as Donnybrook and is served well by public transport.
	www.wiki.ie /wiki/Rathmines (696 words)

	Great Rebellion - LoveToKnow 1911
		The battle of Lansdown was a second Stratton for the Cornishmen, but this time the enemy was of different quality and far differently led, and they had to mourn the loss of Sir Bevil Grenville and the greater part of their whole force.
		But for once the council of war on the other side was for fighting a battle, and the Parliamentary armies, their spirits revived by the prospect of action and by the news of the fall of Newcastle and the defeat of a sally from Newark, marched briskly.
		The two armies met in battle near Alford on the Don; little can be said of the engagement save that Montrose had to fight cautiously and tentatively as at Aberdeen, not in the decision-forcing spirit of Auldearn,, and that in the end Baillie's cavalry gave way and his infantry was cut down as it stood.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Great_Rebellion (17076 words)

	Rathmines - Dublin on ForumForUs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In more recent times, Rathmines was a popular suburb of Dublin, attracting the wealthy and powerful seeking refuge from the poor living conditions of the city from the middle of the 19th century.
		Rathmines sits on a site overlooking the city and is a portal to the hills to the south and west of Dublin.
		Rathmines has thriving commercial and civil activity and would be known across Ireland as part of a traditionally known "flatland" - providing cheap accommodation to the civil servants and third level students coming from outside the city from the 1930s to the present day.
	dublin.forumforus.com /Rathmines (760 words)

	Battle of Rathmines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle of Rathmines was fought in around the modern Dublin suburb of Rathmines in August 1649, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
		The battle ended in the rout of the Confederate /Royalist army and facilitated the landing in Ireland of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army several days later, who in the next four years completed the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
		The battle became a rout as scores of fleeing Royalist and Confederate soldiers were cut down by the pursuing Roundheads.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Rathmines (834 words)

	Rathmines info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rathmines sits on a glob overlooking the urban and is a portal to the hills to the south and west of Dublin.
		Rathmines is the urban sphere of south west Dublin comprising as far west as Kimmage and as far east as Donnybrook and is served firm by practicable transport.
		Rathmines was formerly accidental of the Barony of Uppercross, different of the multifold baronies close arounding the wasted urban of Dublin, bent as it was by walls, some of which are serene visible.
	en.after-gasoline-alley.info /Rathmines (813 words)

	Military History :: The Third Civil War :: British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cromwell in Ireland: battle of Rathmines, massacre at Drogheda, the conquest of Ireland
		Battle of Dunbar: Cromwell defeats the Covenanters in Scotland
		Cromwell defeated the Covenanter army at the battle of Dunbar in 1650.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/index-3.htm (285 words)

	Events
		Battle of Edgehill This excellent article discusses the 23 October 1642 and is an excerpt from "A Relation of the Battle fought between Keynton and Edgehill, by His Majesty's Army and that of the Rebels."
		Battle of Carbisdale: (final defeat of the Marquis of Montrose), Battle of Dunbar (Cromwell defeats the Covenanters in Scotland) and Battle of Worcester: Cromwell's "crowning mercy"; the final defeat of the Royalists.
		battle of Rathmines, massacre at Drogheda and the conquest of Ireland
	www.casahistoria.net /events.htm (1524 words)

	Irish battles - Wiki Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Battle of Devlin (Delbhna Bethra); the MacGeoghegan kills three thousand English.
		1342 - battle of Beal-atha-Slisen; King of Connacht defeats the King of Moylurg.
		1349 - O Melaghlin of Meath defeated in battle by the English.
	www.wiki.ie /wiki/Irish_battles (877 words)

	The Battle of Rathmines and Baggotrath
		The most notable event in the annals of Rathmines was the battle in 1649, during the Civil War between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
		Viewed across the open country to the southward was an unbroken panorama of the mountains, which, however, peaceful looking, were full of menace to the lowlands, owing to the spoils exacted by the "mountainy men in their frequent raids upon the fertile tract lying between them and the metropolis.
		Having routed these, he marched with all diligence up to the walls of Rathmines [Castle], which were about 16 feet high, and containing about 10 acres of ground, where many of the enemy's foot had shut up themselves; but perceiving their army to be entirely routed, and their General fled, they yielded themselves prisoners.
	www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/Neighbourhood/chapter18.html (2287 words)

	Pre-Barracks Era
		The Battle of Rathmines took place in 1649 when the Irish Royalist, the Earl of Ormond who had camped there, was defeated by the republican General Jones.
		Rathmines was an ideal location for a cavalry barracks.
		Rathmines at that time was not built upon.
	www.stmarys.ie /cathalbrugha/history/prebarracks.htm (335 words)

	English Civil War - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute authority, and supporters of the rights of Parliament—which, while not a fully democratic institution—did represent a check on the power of the monarch.
		The defeat at the Battle of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, however, marked a serious reverse for Parliament in the southwest of England.
		The Parliamentarians under Cromwell engaged the Scots at the Battle of Preston (August 17–August 19).
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/English_Civil_War (6582 words)

	Amazon.fr : Four Roads to Dublin: The History of Ranelagh, Rathmines and Leeson Street: Livres en anglais: Deirdre ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many a bloody battle was fought there between the native Irish, banished to the mountains, and the foreigners who has usurped their lands.
		The famous 'Battle of Rathmines' between Cromwellian forces and Royalists was fought where now stand some of the finest late Georgian and Victorian streets.
		In 1947 Rathmines Township was formed and for the next century intense development created one of the most attractive and exciting areas, socially and architecturally, in Dublin.
	www.amazon.fr /Four-Roads-Dublin-Ranelagh-Rathmines/dp/0862784239 (471 words)

	Oliver Cromwell Encyclopedia Article @ Haired.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, after the battle of Preston, study of Psalms 17 and 105 led him to tell parliament that "they that are implacable and will not leave troubling the land may be speedily destroyed out of the land".
		After his landing at Dublin on August 15, 1649 (itself only recently secured for the Parliament at the battle of Rathmines), Cromwell took the fortified port towns of Drogheda and Wexford to secure logistical supply from England.
		Thomas Carlyle began a reassessment of Cromwell in the 1840s by presenting Cromwell as a hero in the battle between good and evil and a model for restoring morality to an age Caryle believed to be dominated by timidity, meaningless rhetoric, and moral compromise.
	www.haired.org /encyclopedia/Oliver_Cromwell (6760 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They went through the bloody fields, so called because in the 13th to 14th century The Battle of Cullins Wood took place between the Irish men from the hills and the people from Dublin.
		One day a coffin ship was driving around the canal and it fell in and bits of it were found floating in the canal and the lovely river was filled in because it was not safe.
		By the 1840's a coach and omnibus route ran throught Ranelagh, Cullenswood and Rathmines.
	homepage.eircom.net /~kpns/history2.htm (352 words)

	Dublin County Council, Ireland
		Rathmines Township was created in 1847 by Act of Parliament.
		In 1862 the township was enlarged and renamed Rathmines and Rathgar, and in 1899 the Commissioners for the township became an Urban District Council.
		On the motion of Miss ffrench Mullen seconded by Mrs Johnson it was resolved:-"That we request the Council of Greater Dublin to accept the flag of Rathmines to be retained in the City Hall".
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ie-dub.html (1331 words)

	English Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A later battle at Edgehill was inconclusive, but claimed by both the Royalist and Parliamentarian sides as a victory.
		Playing a minor part in the battle on the other side was a cavalry troop raised by a country gentleman, evangelical puritan, and former Member of Parliament named Oliver Cromwell.
		The defeat at the Battle of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, however, was a serious reverse for Parliament in the south-west of England.
	english-civil-war.iqnaut.net (5719 words)

	History
		In 1859, there were at least a score of Presbyterians living in the Rathmines Rathgar area and in September of that year, six men petitioned the Presbytery of Dublin to establish a regular Sunday evening service in the old school house in Rathmines.
		Around Rathmines itself the expansion was rapid and the area became populous enough by 1828 to move the Established Church to erect a place of worship, a chapel-of-ease to St. Peter's, in that year.
		When the building was sufficiently advanced the Rathmines congregation left its temporary home in the old school-house and moved into the basement storey, the lecture hall, of the new church.
	christchurchrathgar.org /history.htm (2328 words)

	Battle of Rathmines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was fought between an English Parliamentarian army under Micheal Jones which held Dublin and an army composed of Irish Confederate and English Royalist troops under the command of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde.
		However, Ormonde was not expecting Jones, the Parliamentary commander, to take the initiative and had not drawn up his troops for battle.
		Cromwell called the battle, "an astonishing mercy", showing the God approved of his conquest of Ireland.
	battle-of-rathmines.iqnaut.net (703 words)

	RATHFARNHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This rather large stronghouse with four corner towers with acute outermost angles was built in the 1580's by Archibishop Loftus.
		It was surrendered to Parliament in 1647 but in 1649 was stormed by Royalists just before the battle of Rathmines.
		The Loftus family recovered it and altered it in the 18th C and in 1913 it was taken over by Jesuits.
	www.castleduncan.com /rathf.htm (61 words)

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		The Battle of Annas and the defeat of Edward Balliol.
		The Battle of Flodden and death of James IV of Scotland.
		The Battle of the Boyne is fought at the Boyne River where William of Orange defeats the Jacobite forces of James II.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/CeltChron3.htm (5675 words)

	1649-52: Cromwell's conquest of Ireland
		Colonel Jones' victory at Rathmines on 2 August enabled Cromwell to land unopposed in Ireland and to occupy Dublin, where he arrived on 15 August with 12,000 experienced troops and a formidable artillery train.
		Up to 1,000 Parliamentarian troops died in the epidemic of dysentery and malaria during the winter of 1649/50, including the veteran Colonel Horton and Lieutenant-General Jones, the hero of Rathmines.
		The last Confederate field army was defeated by Sir Charles Coote at the battle of Scarriffhollis in June 1650; by the end of August only the fortified towns of Limerick, Galway and Athlone still resisted the English invaders.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1649-52-cromwell-ireland.htm (2608 words)

	Rathmines, Ranelagh, Rathfarnham
		Rathmines, as well as its neighbours Rathgar and Rathfarnham, denotes, by the first syllable of the word rath, a castle, that here some sort of fortresses once existed.
		Where Rathmines Castle stood does not seem to be known; but it probably was occupied by Cromwell's troopers after the Battle of Rathmines in 1641, when the Republicans under General Jones annihilated Ormonde's army.
		This is the account of the Battle of Tallaght Hill, which is summarized by the natives, who are much too quick-witted not to see where the shoe pinches, and who at once gave the name of "Tallaght tall talk" to anything approaching to boasts or menaces with no power to enforce them.
	www.eiretek.org /chapters/books/PictDub/picturesque15.htm (4400 words)

	C l a n F a g a n . c o m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the time of the Battle of Rathmines the authorities of the Parliament had friends at Bullock, and the garrison had probably joined their forces.
		A detachment of soldiers was, in 1731, sent to Bullock, to prevent the embarkation of men thus enlisted, and only arrived in time to find that "the wild geese," to the number of 40, had flown the preceding night, in company with some French officers.
		The prevention of smuggling led often to serious rioting and, in 1735, a great battle took place at Bullock, in consequence of the seizure of a quantity of brandy and tea, and one of the revenue officers was wounded and two of the smugglers killed.
	www.clanfagan.com /bullock.html (1786 words)

	Third English Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The joint Royalist and Confederate forces under Ormonde attempted to eliminate the Parliamentary army holding Dublin, but were routed at the battle of Rathmines by a Parlimentary army commanded by Colonel Michael Jones.
		As the former Member of Parliament Admiral Robert Blake blockaded Prince Rupert of the Rhine's fleet in Kinsale, Oliver Cromwell was able to land at Dublin on August 15, 1649 with the army to quell Royalist alliance in Ireland.
		Everywhere the defences were stormed as darkness came on, regulars and militia fighting with equal gallantry, and the few thousands of the Royalists who escaped during the night were easily captured by Lilburne and Mercer, or by the militia which watched every road in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
	www.tagate.com /wars/page/third_english.shtml (3017 words)

	Dublin Castle - History Chapter 8
		He united with his neighbour, Hugh O' Neill, the head of the confederacy of Ulster Chieftains, and began a major campaign of open revolt against the English garrisons in Ulster, which was the least anglicised province of Ireland.
		The army of the royalist Lord Lieutenant Ormonde was defeated by that of Parliamentarian Colonel Michael Jones at the Battle of Rathmines, 1649.
		The 17th Century, had opened with the defeat of the Irish Chieftains at the Battle of Kinsale and saw the end of the Gaelic order with the 'Flight of the Earls'- 'Would that God have permitted them to remain in their inheritance!'.
	www.dublincastle.ie /history8.html (1520 words)

	A Compendium of Irish Biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, eminent persons connected with Ireland ...
		The contest continued all day with varying fortune, and it was not until night began to fall that James's troops gave way, and poured through the Pass of Duleek in broken masses, the retreat being effectually covered by some reserve regiments of cavalry.
		The Irish loss at the battle of the Boyne is generally set down at 1,500, including Lord Dungan, Lord Carlingford, and Sir Neal O'Neill; William's at 500, including Duke Schomberg, who was the first that fell as the army crossed the ford.
		Afterwards he participated in the exploits of Brant and the Mohawks, and was in the battles of Chemung and Newtown in western New York between them and General Sullivan.
	www.booksulster.com /library/biography/biographyJ.php (6939 words)

	Cottage And Farmhouse Furniture - Seventeenth Century Styles
		Such martial incidents as the battle of Rathmines and the storming of Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, the defeat of Montrose and battle of Dunbar in 165o, the battle of Worcester in 1651 and the foreign wars with Holland and Spain fill up the years to 1658.
		Its natural evolution was interrupted and the restraint of the Jacobean forms was in the main due to the conditions prevailing in regard to their manufacture.
		The long list of battles inferred in the chronological note at the commencement of this chapter shows the intense upheaval which was caused by the civil wars which raged from north to south, from east to west, and stultified any artistic impulses which may have been in process of materialisation.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles17/cottage-1.shtml (4454 words)

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