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1641 risingRemembered in Protestant propaganda

Blackpool Pilot SchemeIreland in Schools Learning & Achievement, CYPD

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Cu ChulainnOliver Sheppard1914/36

The following are depictions of the Irish rising which commenced in Ulster on 22 October 1641 amid a

constitutional and related economic crisis convulsing Charles I’s multiple monarchy.

There were three plots - a conspiracy by Rory O’More and Conor Maguire in February 1641; a conspiracy of army

officers disbanded from Wentworth’s army, subsequently abandoned; and the coalescence of these earlier plots

under Sir Phelim O’Neill in August. The insurrection has traditionally been seen as a revolt

against the Ulster plantation.However, the main conspirators were debt-ridden scions of

families who were originally beneficiaries rather than victims of the plantation.

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Cu ChulainnOliver Sheppard1914/36

Map showing Tudor and Stuart plantations in Ireland

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Title page of Sir John Temple’s History of the Irish Rebellion

(1646)

Temple's account of the 1641 rising was perhaps the most lurid of the

sensationalist works of propaganda produced in the aftermath of the

rising.

The allegation that the rising was a premeditated plot to exterminate the

Protestant population, and the wild exaggeration of the numbers killed,

helped legitimize the sequestration of Catholic land in the Adventurers’ Act

and Cromwellian land settlement.

The frequent republication of the History of the Irish Rebellion - nine

times by 1812 - reflected periods of Irish Protestant anxiety.

Conversely, the book was loathed by Irish Catholics and was publicly

burned on the orders of the Patriot Parliament of 1689.

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Driving the Protestants

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Drowning of a refugee convoy at Portadown

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Friars looking on at drowning Protestants

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Torturing Mrs Forde

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On the gridiron

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Ravishing virgins & wives

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Mangling the minister's body

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Priest anointing rebels before 'they go to the murther'