It is always hard to teach history students to empathise with the horrors of warfare and grasp battle strategies and etiquette but this novel does it very well and it also gives a very poignant and balanced fictional view of the
Battle of the Boyne. It may need promoting to students, but I hope it is well read and that it finds a readership not only with students who have Irish blood in their veins but with KS3 and KS4 students from other ethnic groups as this is a painful time in Irish history that they should know about.
Loyalists had been angered when authorities enforced a ban on the march passing through a particular route in north Belfast, as Orangemen commemorated a historic victory at the
battle of the Boyne.
Mr Newark, a well-established military historian, begins his history with the
Battle of the Boyne and the resulting departure of the 'Wild Geese' for Europe.
The battalion was formed in 1674 to fight in the
Battle of the Boyne.
Thousands of members of the Protestant Orange orders walk the streets every July 12 to commemorate the 1690
Battle of the Boyne victory of the Protestant king William III of Orange over the Catholic king James II.
John Childs chronicles--in overwhelming detail--the success of Williamite forces as they methodically advanced from northeast to southwest, won the iconic
Battle of the Boyne on 11 July 1690, and captured Limerick, the last Jacobite bastion.
The 45s, so named to distinguish between the Jacobite rebellions, rose not in 1744 but in 1745 as the name suggests and did not follow the banner of James Edward Stuart, who fled and was deposed after the
battle of the Boyne, but Charles Edward Stuart, (Bonnie Prince Charlie), who fled after the battle of Culloden.
There were also 58 arrests - five for sectarian breach of the peace - as the Orange Order marked the
Battle of the Boyne anniversary.
"I have written to Peter Snow and told him that the next time he wants to film the
Battle of the Boyne, he will not be welcome," fumed Cahill.
After all, did not the same James go down to defeat at the
Battle of the Boyne at the hands of that great Belfast hero, William of Orange?
Although a Protestant living in `a very strong traditional Unionist place', she refused to watch the annual Protestant parades on July 12 to celebrate William III's victory at the
Battle of the Boyne. Instead, she invited Catholic and Protestant victims to the farm for hay rides and fun.