PLAY PODCASTS
02.57 - Kilkenny Coup d'etat
Season 2 · Episode 57

02.57 - Kilkenny Coup d'etat

With the king's defeat in the English Civil War, his forces in Scotland and Ireland react.

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

November 10, 202229m 29s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (op3.dev) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

With the king's defeat in the English Civil War, his forces in Scotland and Ireland react. In Scotland, Montrose goes into exile, Mac Colla continues raiding the Campbells, and Huntly remains useless. In Ireland, the First Ormond Peace goes public, forcing the hand of Papal Nuncio Rinuccini.


Check out the podcast website

Check out Pax Britannica Merch!

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon | Donate

Listen to the History of WW2 HERE: https://pod.link/493253759 or visit the website https://worldwariipodcast.net/

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:


  • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
  • Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
  • Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
  • John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
  • David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
  • John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
  • Patrick Little, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004
  • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
  • Ó Siochrú, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999
  • Lenihan, Pádraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices