Irish Confederate Wars

History With RCS: The Eleven Year War. Scots, Catholics, Protestants, greed, fear, and cruelty brought to Ireland by English

              The Irish Confederate Wars lasted from 1641 to 1653. Seems the Irish called them the Eleven Year War.

                I am new to these happenings and am emotional as I read of them, but will continue to try to bring more of an honest story to you.

             

              I do kind of get that the cause of this "rebellion may well be lack of self-government and of sharp Irish awareness of that lack. Outside of Ireland a wide spectrum  other reasons and causes. English fear and greed may be among them.

                Let me try to express the nature of some of my ignorance. I have heard that the "rebelling" Irish were Catholic. Was there not a Jew or an atheist among them? I have also heard that some those rebellious Irish were English! How can that be? Were they English Catholics living in Ireland, or what? At the time of this Eleven Year War, of what did the Kingdom of Ireland consist? Which Scots were not against a free Ireland? Which Protestant colonials figured in this conflict?

                So, among the "rebelling' Irish Catholics there were English? And against them was the Kingdom of England? the Kingdom of Ireland? Some Scots?
And some Protestant colonials?

 

                Oh, it kind of got under the skin of an Irishman or two that the English idea of "plantation" was to come to Ireland, take Irish land from Irish families and plant English there. This was not done with sweetness. The Irish who lost their land were left not only with out a roof, but also without the food their land provide. They were left without stock or crop or door or roof. They were left with some emotions and some memories.

                Are there any good movies or film about these goings on?

                Can you tell something about these happenings? anything? I do not think that there is anything wrong with the "Comments section below. Use it to help me. You can do so anonymously.



                                                                                                                by Richard Sheehan

 

Chickamauga Wars: the earliest U.S. war?

History With RCS: Our American ancestors, right from 1776, warred about as much we war now. I hope to give you some short histories of a few of those wars in the future.

                Right now here are a few words on the "Chickamauga War:"

                The history books talk a bit about the Chickamauga War, but I like to say wars, because Chickamauga wars started early and lasted long. Some call them the Cherokee Wars. When Cherokee ancestors protected their families and territory from the violence of our ancestors, our ancestors killed them; killed them man, woman, and child; killed them and took their homes and land. Ancestors, theirs and ours, killed each other. Our ancestors often proved to be the better killers. 

                Still the Cherokee people, with the sometimes help of other peoples such as the Muskogee and Shawnee, actively resisted for nearly a century. In some history books those wars continued for only about 20 years.

                Much of those struggles took place in what we might call the northern tier of the  southern states; states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina.

                Mostly the Cherokee depended on their native allies, but they also allied themselves with the Kingdom of Great Britain to protect themselves from invasion and occupation by Americans. 

                The Cherokee, it may well be remembered, are one of we called the civilized tribes. They were called civilized for a variety of reasons; reasons such as their life style and their way of dealing with others.
                

                They were also one of the first tribes to widely intermarry with Europeans. They may well have intermarried with Europeans well before the first colonies were established in North America. The Cherokee, I believe, have long established bloodlines with Portugues, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and others.

                During much of the most severe strife between Cherokee and American an important Cherokee leader was Dragging Canoe.  

                The Cherokee are distant relatives of the Iroquoi and spoke and Iroquoian language. They probably migrated south from Iroquois territory around the Great Lakes in pre Columbian times. So, the Cherokee probably dispossessed others to claim territory in what are now US states.

                I plan to write more about our wars.

                Was Nancy Ward a news paper Cherokee?





                                                                                            by Richard Sheehan