Ireland

A Catholic confederacy is instituted to administer Catholic-controlled parts of the country pending a final settlement

Ormond defeats insurgents at Kilrush, Co. Kildare

Charles I's Adventurer's Act offers confiscated Irish land in return for investment in the reconquest

The Act for the Setling of Ireland imposed penalties including death and land confiscation against Irish civilians and combatants after the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and subsequent unrest. British historian John Morrill wrote that the Act and associated forced movements represented “perhaps the greatest exercise in ethnic cleansing in early modern Europe.

The Island Magee massacre occurred in 1642

30 Catholics are killed by the Scottish garrison and English settlers at Island Magee, Co. Antrim

Battle of Julianstown

The Battle of Julianstown was fought on 27 November 1641 near Julianstown in County Louth during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. A force sent by the Dublin government to reinforce the garrison of Drogheda was ambushed by Irish rebels and nearly destroyed.

The Ulster rebels take Dundalk

Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh

The Gaelic Catholics of Ulster stage an uprising against the Scottish Presbyterian planters

Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda

Patrick Darcy, a prominent constitutional lawyer, argues that the Irish parliament possesses independent authority