Irish Crossword Challenge: Ireland’s History 1201-1700
By Linda Fulton Burke
ACROSS
1 An act of the English parliament pushed out ________ from parliament and public office. 1691
3 _____Castle became the royal center. 1204
4 Archbishop Oliver _______ was executed in London. 1681
6 _______ representing the Pope were defeated at Smerwick. 1580
8 Richard II came to Ireland so the kings could ______ to him. 1394-1395
10 The bishop of Down and Connor, Cornelius O’Devany, was _______ for treason. 1612
11 A petition was given to _______ III of England asking for English law in Ireland. 1327-1328
12 Under the Williamite confiscation more land was ______ from Catholics, leaving them with about 14% of Irish land. 1691 – 1703
17 ‘___________’ is a method of inheritance involving splitting land between members of a clan, was made illegal. 1608
18 Richard, ____ of York, fled to Ireland after losing a battle at Ludford in England. 1459
19 At the Parliament of Kilkenny, it was decided the Irish could not join Anglo-Irish_________ houses. 1310
22 Edward _____ was killed by John de Bermingham of Faughart. 1318
23 of Tyrone and Tyrconnell sailed away on LoughSwilly which became known as the “flight of the earls” They were charged.with high treason. 1607
24 Viscount Wentworth, lord deputy, prepared for a plantation of________. 1635
25 Twenty-five ships of the Spanish ______ were wrecked off the coast of Ireland. 1588
26 Efforts were made to give the King Charles’ supporters their land back. This was the Act of Settlement and Act of ____________. 1660-1665
30 _______ became illegal. 1608
32 Anti-Catholic laws were passed, called the
‘popery code’ or _____Laws. 1695-1709
34 Shane O’Neill rebelled and was called a ______.. 1561
35 Settlers came to ______and Offaly. 1550-1557
37 The Irish could no longer send ______ to England. .
39 Settlers from England and Scotland began to arrive in ______. 1610
40 There were ‘Irish riots’ at ______ University. 1267, 1264
46 There were three ___________ in Dublin. 1297-1300
47 Limerick was under siege in August. Patrick _________ led a Jacobite force against William. 1689
48 Conyers Clifford, president of Connact, was killed by Hugh Roe O’Donnell in the Curlew Mountains. 1599
50 Soldiers of the Earl of Essex carried out a ________ on Rathlin Island. 1575
52 Charles I offered concessions called ______ to the Irish people in return for money he could use in his fight against Spain. 1626
53 Poyning’s Law ‘said the Anglo-Irish were not supposed to use Irish laws and customs., but the ban on ________ Irish had to be dropped. 1494- 1495
55 Land was confiscated under ________’s orders. Landowners sent to Connacht. Cromwell’s soldiers were given the confiscated land. 1652- 1653
60 Thomas, Lord_______ – also called ‘Silken Thomas’ – was made deputy when his father, the earl of Kildare, went to England. 1534
61 The Statute of ________was introduced to keep the Irish and English apart, so the English would not pick up on Irish culture, language and dress. 1366
66 A _______ army landed at Kinsale to support Hugh O’Neill. They were attacked by government forces. 1601
68 several victories, Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, became The O’Neill 1585-1603
71 The Second English _________ Act meant that the colonies couldn’t send goods directly to Ireland. 1671
73 Hugh Roe O’Donnell fled to _____Spain, where he died. 1601
74 King _____ II arrived in Kinsale and besieged Derry, which had defied him. Enniskillen defeated his soldiers at Newtownbutler. 1689
75 The ___________ of Cashel, Dermot O’Hurley, was hanged in Dublin. 1584
76 ____ O’Neill was made earl of Tyrone. 1587
DOWN
2 Cromwell arrived in Dublin on August 15th as the commander-in-chief.. He took Drogheda, Wexford, and New Ross. 1649
3 _______was lost to parliamentary forces. 1647
4 ____ Paul IV declared that Ireland was a kingdom. 1555
5 The Irish were restricted in selling _______ goods abroad. 1699
7 A _________ representative, Gonzalo – Fernandez, came to Ireland to see the earl of Desmond. 1529
9 Supporters of Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be the son of Edward V, besieged _________. 1495
11 The earl of Desmond was _________. 1468
12 There was a proclamation that all people were _______of the king, not of any lord or chief. 1605
13 A plantation of _______ was planned. 1585
14 In the Battle of Knockdoe,the English and the earl of ________ defeated Clanricard and Ó Briain. 1504
15 Richard de Burgh was given the whole of ________. 1227
16 Irish trade with the ________ was restricted by Act of Parliament. 1663
20 ____ were used for the first time in Ireland by the troops of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill. 1487
21 With the __________ underway and the Catholic church out of favour, the monasteries within the Pale began to be closed. 1539
27 The area under Dublin’s control was referred to as the ‘____’ for the first time that we know of. 1446
28 The English Book of Common ______ was now to be used in Ireland. 1549
29 The ____ of Surrey, Thomas Howard, was sent to Ireland to regain control for England. King Henry VIII told him to use persuasion rather than violence. 1520
31 John, now King of England as well of Lord of _______, captured Carrickfergus. 1210
33 The _____Death struck Howth and Drogheda. 1348
36 It was decreed that there should be one law for both the Irish and Anglo-Irish, except for the betaghs (_____). 1331.
38 Limerick was besieged again. A ______ was signed, which meant the end of the war. 1691
41 The Irish army was allowed to go to _______ to serve James II. 1691
42 A rising began in Ulster. The Ulster Irish and Old English allied with one another _______ the English. 1641
43 The first _______ Irish was produced. 1571
44 The _____Carta, which guaranteed certain rights, was issued for Ireland. 1216
45 The earl of Desmond _______ the Munster Plantation. 1598
48 FitzGerald advanced against the O’Donnells at _____, but was stopped. 1257-1258
49 Owen Roe O’Neill _________ the Scots under Robert Munro at Benburb. 1646
51 ______Thomas rebelled and was executed along with his five uncles in 1537.
53 The MacDonnells, who killed _____ O’Neill 1567
54 The Dominiscans and Franciscans founded their first ___________ in Ireland. 1224
56 St Leger brought in the ‘surrender and regrant’ policy, which meant Irish earls and lords had to submit to King Henry VIII to keep their ____. 1540-1543
57 King William III, who had claimed the throne from James, defeated James at Oldbridge on the _____. 1690
58 Western Europe including Ireland was hit by a ______. 1315-1317
59 A law forbade Irish _____ and musicians to go into Anglo-Irish areas. 1435
62 New plantations in _______ King’s County, Queen’s County and Westmeath were given the go-ahead. 1621
63 The _________rebelled. 1568-1572, 1579-1582
64 Hugh Roe O’Donnell managed to escape from Dublin _____. 1591
65 Edward Bruce of Scotland captured Dundalk and became high king. The next year he was crowned king of _______. 1315
67 A _______ confederacy known as the Confederation of Kilkenny was created. 1642
69 The Irish kings offered the high-kingship to Haakon IV of ______ in return for his help in getting the English out of Ireland. 1262-1263
70 _____VIII was made ‘king of Ireland’ by the Irishparliament. 1541
72 A big _____ army fought for Edward I in Scotland.1307.
