The Nature Of Rebellions: Irish Rebellions

Question 1

What was the difference in scale and location in Irish rebellions?

Answer 1

Most Irish disturbances lasted for several years, the scale of fighting also increased in the cause of the period

Question 2

Compared to when Essex took 17,000 troops and Mountjoy 13,000 troops to Ireland in the late 16th century, how many did Sir Edward Poynings, Henry VII’s Lord Deputy of Ireland in the 1490s bring to defend the Pale?

Answer 2

400 troops

Question 3

Which Irish noble backed Simnel before swearing allegiance to King Henry VII?

Answer 3

The Earl of Kildare

Question 4

What did King Henry VIII do that seriously established relations between English governments and Irish subjects and between Irish and Gaelic clans?

Answer 4

Henry ended generation of Irish aristocratic rule and destabilised relations because for the first time English-born official were appointed to ket administrative post as lord deputies, lieutenants, treasures and chancellors

Question 5

What happened in 1541 that changed the relationship of King Henry VIII and the Gaelic chiefs?

Answer 5

Henry became the King of Ireland rather than ‘Lord of Ireland’ and Gaelic chefs whew obliged to ‘surrender’ their lands, renounce their traditional customs and have their lands ‘regranted’ according to English usage

Question 6

What did many ‘old’ English families resent attempt by the Tudor to do in Ireland?

Answer 6

Introduce a Protestant reformation

Question 7

Who arrived in Ireland in 1570 to whip up anti-English sentiment?

Answer 7

Roman Catholic missionaries