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    The Irish Army or Irish establishment, in practice called the monarch's "army in Ireland" or "army of Ireland", was the standing army of the Kingdom of...
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  • position involved command of the distinct Irish Army of the Kingdom of Ireland. The title Marshal of Ireland was awarded to William Marshal, 1st Earl of...
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  • Crofton family (category 1661 establishments in Ireland)
    The Crofton Family is an Anglo-Irish noble family holding titles in the Peerage of Ireland and The Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Crofton family...
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    church. The Parliament of Ireland was composed of Anglo-Irish nobles. From 1661, the administration controlled an Irish army. Although styled a kingdom...
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  • Gerald FitzGerald, Knight of Glin (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    (died 1689) was an Irish Jacobite soldier and politician, the son of John FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Glin and Honora O'Connor. Between 1661 and 1666, FitzGerald...
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  • Stuart (British Army officer, born 1753) (1753–1801), British general during the French Revolutionary Wars Charles Stuart (British Army officer, born 1810)...
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    Earl of Drogheda (category 1661 establishments in Ireland)
    Earl of Drogheda is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1661 for The 3rd Viscount Moore. The Moore family descends from Sir Garrett Moore...
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    1st The Royal Dragoons (category 1661 establishments in England)
    (1st Dragoons) was a heavy cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1661 as the Tangier Horse. It served for three centuries and...
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  • Robert FitzGerald (1637–1698) (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    1661 and 1666 he was a Member of Parliament for County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons. As Comptroller of the Musters and Cheques of the Army in...
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    Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Leitrim constituencies)
    18 December 1661) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician from County Roscommon. A strong advocate of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, he fought...
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  • Charles Coote, 2nd Earl of Mountrath (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    1660. Between April and December 1661 he briefly served as the Member of Parliament for Roscommon County in the Irish House of Commons, before inheriting...
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    Irish unionists as a symbol of Irish republicanism and the Irish Republican Army. Many other flags are suggested as the cross-border flag for Ireland...
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    English Army (and the subsequent British Army) remained in Ireland primarily to suppress Irish revolts or disorder. In addition to its conflict with Irish nationalists...
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  • of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages. Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition...
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  • Irish Convention of 1660 and was elected as a Member of Parliament for County Louth in 1661. Bellingham was a poll tax commissioner in 1660 and 1661,...
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    Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Meath constituencies)
    Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet FRS (14 April 1661 – 19 October 1733) was an Irish physician. Molyneux was the youngest son of Samuel Molyneux...
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    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1661. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot and the 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, it was one of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, its home...
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  • Richard Townsend (soldier) (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    Richard was elected MP for Baltimore in the Irish Parliament, which met at Chichester House, Dublin in 1661. His appearances in the Parliament were infrequent...
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    Robert Blennerhassett (MP for Tralee) (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    Ireland (Irish Roots Cafe, 1994), 30. Burke's Irish Family Records (London, 1976), 134 Michael C. O'Laughlin, Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland (Irish Roots...
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    regiment in the British Army because of the long serving loyalty to the monarch during the English Civil War. 26 January 1661 – King Charles II issues...
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  • Cheshire in 1661 William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton (1631–1680), MP for Newton in 1659 and Bossiney 1660 William Brereton (British Army officer) (1789–1864)...
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    fought in the Irish Confederate Wars, first with the Earl of Ormonde's Royal Irish Army, then later under Oliver Cromwell. When Ireland was part of the...
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  • John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (category Irish MPs 1661–1666)
    in County Antrim in 1660. In 1661, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for County Antrim in the re-established Irish House of Commons. He vacated...
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    parliament in 1661, only one Catholic MP was returned to the Irish Parliament. However, his election was overturned. The Protestant interest in Ireland would...
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    The Irish diaspora (Irish: Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland. The phenomenon...
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    under the Crown, was formed following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1661. At this point, the small standing forces included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Troops...
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  • Henry Talbot of Templeogue (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Dublin constituencies)
    McGrath, Brid (1997). "Henry Talbot (d. 1661+) Newcastle County". A Biographical Dictionary of the Membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640 to 1641 (Ph...
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    English fortresses on the Indian coast was initiated with Fort St George. In 1661, the marriage of King Charles II to Catherine of Braganza brought him as...
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    James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tyrone constituencies)
    James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, PC (Ire) (c. 1661 – 28 November 1734), was a Scottish and Irish peer and politician. Appointed a groom of the bedchamber...
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