The Boyne - Part One

[@narendrapatel9144]

NO SURRENDER GOD BLESS HM KING WILLIAM THE THIRD

[@7183d]

Fuck em

[@Valencetheshireman927]

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[@jaronjaja4942]

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[@miguelluedekezelenka6496]

It's King Billy....the original Orange Man Bad!

[@davidgraham1528]

Stroll on

[@presbyteriangirl9739]

This is awesome

[@jamesstewart553]

It is not mentioned but the main funder and backer of William was his Holiness The Pope, who opposed the French king. Religious freedom had nothing really to do with this war in Ireland. European politics played out in Ireland.

[@kets4443]

Do you understand what Freedom means? It doesn't mean his religion over theirs, it means religion for everyone. The Pope supporting a Protestant was a sign of true freedom.

[@jamesstewart553]

@@kets4443 See the comment below, more to do with the Pope wishing to curb the Sun King of France. European politics collided with British politics being fought out in Ireland. Religious freedom was not on the agenda. James was deemed to be unsuited due to his religion to be King thus the glorious revolution to see his daughter wed to Willam of Orange and both to take the crown.

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

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[@paulbrowne3033]

From a proper military, historical point the real battle that mattered in the war of the two Kings with European background was the Battle of Aughrim where unfortunately because of the decision of the French General the cause was lost and 7000 Irishmen perished. Military genius on behalf of William of Orange was not a factor the Irish foot soldier fought bravely to the end and will never be forgotten by most people on this Island respectfully I wish people studied the history of the era objectively!

[@DKR98]

Yes mate the Boyne is more symbolic but Aughrim matters more militarily

[@Drifty40]

Some sore losers on here, who still hold a grudge over 300 years later. Incredible ! lol

[@andrewbrand2433]

The battle would never have taken place only for Pope Innocent XI financing the House of Orange in their effort to take the crown of England from James II who was father-in-law and uncle of William III.

[@sansoucci5394]

Yes perhaps etc etc... blah blah. But IT DID TAKE place

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

​@@sansoucci5394Doesn't change the fact that William of Orange was a usurper and protestants can go suck ass.

[@ProductofWit]

Even the Pope didn't like Louis XIV and was in essence more anti-French than anti-Protestant in this conflict. Sucks for the Irish, but Louis XIV was not really a well-loved monarch. Or how this still lives on today.

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

Louis XIV was a very well-loved monarch for the French. It was his enemies that despised him, of course.

[@hogcranker35]

@@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire He was despised as a petty tyrant by the vast majority of his people who threw his nation into an everlasting spiral of debt and his absolutist political system would cost him the lives of his grandchildren at the hands of the Jacobin razor.

[@andrewlifeisforliveing1121]

A bit much like

[@andycoshrobe6295]

long live the stuart kings

[@junecollins5391]

Andy Campbell no the last descendant and rightful heir to the British throne is Bonnie prince Charles direct descendant a Bavarian duke look it up on google

[@britishpatriot7386]

No one cares

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

Long live the Stuarts.

[@BruceWayne-md4xi]

ed says the boyne didnt even happen

[@mcsuibhne005]

Wasn't it the consolidation of a coup against the rightful king ? # Jacobites4eva!

[@RobertK1993]

Yes Ulster Scots love rebellion American Civil War Irish Home rule crisis.

[@tomweldon7608]

@@RobertK1993 biggest celebration days in America is st Patricks day and also The celebration of independence from the British

[@mariussielcken]

@@tomweldon7608 Irish revolutionaries exiled in New York.

[@joprocter4573]

Ensure new pm is welcome to our culture

[@IRISHguitarist777]

A beautiful statue indeed of William. I have for many years thought It is an absolute disgrace that the Duke of Schomberg gets a tiny stone plaque buried in the back of St. Patricks Cathedral here in Dublin. There should be some way to give the Duke a grand bronze statue either in Dublin or Belfast or most fittingly of all at the interpretative Centre at the Boyne site. I will wonder to my grave how this great old man was never honored by the protestant community with his own statue.

[@conorsarsfield7158]

There was an obelisk in his memory at the bound and a statue in college green in Dublin but both were destroyed in the 20s

[@RobertK1993]

Why would Irish care about Dutch homosexual prince trying gain English crown the Irish care very little about the Glorious Revolution.

[@williamhouston6600]

@@RobertK1993 The Glorious Revolution and the civil and religious liberty it brought to Europe, is the reason you have the right to show your ignorance and be offensive.

[@o-o2399]

@@williamhouston6600 you do realize that this fucked our chance of rights for a whole century and its not this that give us our freedom it was the nationalist who slowly repelled laws and made everyone somewhat equal by the 1800s .

[@7183d]

He shouldn't have a grave at all. He doesn't deserve a christian burial.

[@andrewbrand2433]

Can't understand why they have William on a white horse as he never owned one. St. James's palace will confirm this. Is it a lone ranger thing?????????????? with silver bullets and all?

[@573gwills3]

NO MORE CAFOLIKS!

[@semkerstens3283]

im dutch and catholic we are still the biggest relegion around here 50% only 10% less are protestant

[@colink4823]

@@semkerstens3283 who cares. It's religion and nationalism which has caused the majority of conflicts in the world

[@RobertK1993]

Kaleidoscope Ulster Loyalism/Unionism are a form of nationalism.

[@Dom-fx4kt]

@@semkerstens3283 22% Catholic 15% Protestant. The Netherlands 2018.

[@mariussielcken]

That's a reference to Trainspotting 2, if I'm not mistaken.

[@cloudattack3279]

Pimpin for the pope!

[@reg9569]

Actual larpers

[@Dom-fx4kt]

But based tho

[@dan-860]

Seethe

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

​@@Dom-fx4kt "But based tho" 🤡

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

True

[@neil5568]

Sic semper tyrannis.

[@Valencetheshireman927]

Vae victis

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

Ask the Irish and the Scottish what they think about William of Orange and James II, let's see who they think is the tyrant, you muppet.

[@hogcranker35]

​@@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire Scots Lowlanders love King Billy as do Ulstermen, only Highlander and Fenian savages view him negatively

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

@@hogcranker35 Ulstermen are not Irish, you clown, they are the descendants of English and Scottish protestant colonizers sent to Ireland to control that land more easily and to this day they remain occupying Irish land.

[@hogcranker35]

@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire The Catholic Irish themselves aren't entirely Celtic or Irish either, considering the large admixture of Scandinavian and Norman heritage from the Viking and Plantagenet eras. Nobody on the isle of Ireland is entirely native in any manner, and the same goes for Great Britain, so this posturing about who "deserves" to control the whole of the island is stupid. You threw yourselves in droves to die for a French-backed absolutist tyrant only for the fact that he was Catholic and were vanquished as such. If anything the Ulster-Scots have more of a claim to Ulster simply based on the heritage of the Kingdom of Dal-Riata than do the Irish Gaels.