Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty
Sir Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty (1594–1665), was an Irish soldier and politician. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Muskerry in 1641. He rebelled against the government and joined the Irish Catholic Confederation, demanding religious freedom as a Catholic and defending the rights of the Gaelic nobility. Later, he supported the King against his Parliamentarian enemies during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Muskerry as army general
Limerick Castle on the River Shannon
Confederate Ireland, also referred to as the Irish Catholic Confederation, was a period of Irish Catholic self-government between 1642 and 1652, during the Eleven Years' War. Formed by Catholic aristocrats, landed gentry, clergy and military leaders after the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the Confederates controlled up to two-thirds of Ireland from their base in Kilkenny; hence it is sometimes called the "Confederation of Kilkenny".
Replica of a Confederation flag found in Rothe House, Kilkenny; it depicts the Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven by the Holy Trinity; an explicitly Catholic symbol.
Cathedral of St Canice, where members of the Assembly heard mass.
Charles I; the Confederates pledged him allegiance, but the two sides struggled to agree terms
The Papal Nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini