Talk:Williamite War in Ireland

message: [...] some political figures hatched a conspiracy to invite William of Orange to invade England and to assume the Throne jointly with his wife, James' sister Mary.
Was she not his daughter (as is also previously stated)?
— Doshea3 11:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister? 

message: According to John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, ed. Mervyn Archdall (London, 1789), vol. 3, pp. 25-28, eleven of the thirteen sons of Walter Tuite of Tuitestown in Westmeath and his wife, Margaret O'More, daughter of David O'More of Portallen in County Laois were killed in this war. But this seems extraordinarily high for one single immediate family. Was this degree of family loss common in this war or was it unique? Captain Fearnought (talk) 07:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Largest family casualty in the war?

message: How come england had a catholic king when in 1550 ish henry VIII created a protestant church and made kings the heads. Was james the head of the protestant church then?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.164.85 (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he was. The main issue beyond his Catholicism was his longing for absolutist reign against (ultimately: without) parliament, read James II's article for more. --FlammingoHey 16:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: More accurately, in 1550 Mary, Queen of Scots was a Catholic queen, in 1567 the one year old James VI became a protestant king but not exactly head of the Kirk. He later invented the divine right of kings, perhaps in reaction to his upbringing when he was told that kings had to respond to their followers. In 1685 James VII became a Catholic head of the Kirk and continued with his predecessor's policy of killing presbyterians – the covenanters. Thus when he fled, Jacobitism wasn't much liked in large areas of Scotland. In 1685 he also became head of the CofE, which is where you came in. . . dave souza, talk 08:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about henry VIII's church? 

message: The page is missing clarity on how William was James's son-in-law, and also a grandson of Charles I. This was a family tussle.78.19.201.191 (talk) 11:05, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: no, it was not - it was a very serious conflict of religion in England 2603:6080:2103:3FA2:6D3C:739E:35BE:9151 (talk) 18:50, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: William's relationship with James

message: Added a couple of extra bits - Limerick and the 1691 campaign. Still a lot of 1689-90 to update and expand. Svejk74 (talk) 17:43, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Good stuff :) Robinvp11 (talk) 16:42, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: All except the post Aughrim sections now updated - feel free to rewrite / edit.Svejk74 (talk) 18:04, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the support on the Church of Ireland thing; it being the 12th July, I decided not to react. It seems to be his mission in life; to quote my favourite film; It's what he does. It's all he does.:) 
Robinvp11 (talk) 16:45, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries; it's always good to have more pictures, even better to have more properly formatted ones.Svejk74 (talk) 17:04, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, forgot to clarify (otherwise I feel like a sad bast@#$d). I don't (really) give a stuff about picture sizes; I do care about people making changes without explanation and then claiming its to comply with some regulation they just made up.Robinvp11 (talk) 17:13, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Wikipedia can attract people who care more about process than useability, unfortunately, stretching to citing imaginary rules.Svejk74 (talk) 19:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

text: It occurs to me I've forgotten to add that control of Ulster was essential to the Jacobites as James planned to use it as a bridgehead to Scotland. Perhaps this can be added.Svejk74 (talk) 09:09, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

text: We're thinking on the same lines :) Robinvp11 (talk) 12:50, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates