The original House was built by Colonel John Browne, a Jacobite, who was at the Siege of Limerick, and his wife Maude Bourke.

( See Sieges of Limerick and Siege of Athlone ).

Cavalry commander of Jacobite forces at the Siege of Limerick, Ireland, General in French Army following " Flight of the Wild Geese " is buried here, in the graveyard of St. Martin's Church.

* Hugh Dubh O ' Neill ( 1611 – 1660 ), Irish soldier who commanded the defenders in the Siege of Clonmel and Siege of Limerick

See the Siege of Limerick ( 1690 ), for an example of these attitudes.

The " Gay Gordons ", " Siege of Ennis ", " The Walls of Limerick " and " The Stack of Barley " are popular dances in this genre.

The original House was built by Colonel John Browne, a Jacobite, who was at the Siege of Limerick, and his wife Maude Bourke.

He accompanied William III to England in 1688, and during the Williamite war in Ireland he took part in the Siege of Carrickfergus and the Battle of the Boyne, and was wounded at the Siege of Limerick ( 1690 ).

He landed in Ireland in January 1651 and was involved in the Siege of Limerick ( 1650-51 ).

Adam Loftus, who recovered his castle and lands under Cromwell, sided with the Parliamentarians and was killed at the Siege of Limerick in 1651.

It concluded the Siege of Limerick.

The walls of the castle were severely damaged in the Siege of Limerick 1642, the first of five sieges of the city in the 17th century.

Limerick during the Siege of Limerick ( 1690 ).

Talbot died immediately before the Siege of Limerick.

Meinhardt Schomberg was created Duke of Leinster for his part in the Battle on 30 June 1690 and, after taking part in the abortive Siege of Limerick in August 1690, he became a British subject through naturalization by Act of Parliament on 25 April 1691.

In 1650, Cromwell spent 10 days on the opposite side of the Shannon at Ballina, exploring ways to cross the river, which was the defensive line of catholic and royalist forces before the Siege of Limerick.

The Siege of Limerick ended with Irish surrender on 23 September 1691, when Patrick Sarsfield, despairing of any hope of victory, overthrew the French officers in command of the city and opened negotiations with Ginkell.

In 1691, the Cathedral suffered considerable damage, particularly on the east end, during the Williamite Siege of Limerick.

It was the scene of a failed defending of the city during the Siege of Limerick.

He was then made commander of the defenders at the Siege of Limerick ( 1650-51 ), fighting off the Parliamentarian's first attempt to take the city in late 1650.

Siege of Limerick may refer to:

* Siege of Limerick ( 1642 ), English Protestants surrendered to Confederate Catholics

His first action was to mount a counter-guerrilla expedition into the Wicklow Mountains early in June 1650, in order to secure his lines of supply for the Siege of Waterford in Ireland's southeast.

The Siege of Clonmel took place in April – May 1650 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when the town of Clonmel in County Tipperary was besieged by Oliver Cromwell ’ s New Model Army.

This was a strategy used many times by defenders of fortifications, for example, by the Irish defenders during the Siege of Clonmel ( April-May 1650 ).

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.

* 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

* 718 – Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

* 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1, 600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen.

* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.

* 1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

* 1942 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

* 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.