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Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier, known...

known as Ormondists), in turn, laid siege to Dundalk and overran and plundered the town in March 1642, killing many inhabitants. The Ormondists held the...

regiment joined the army of Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara in opposing Ormondists. According to MacVuirich, the Highlanders were "esteemed and honoured...

adhered to a faction within the Confederates, called the peace party or the Ormondists, that sought an agreement that would protect against such a loss. The...

Confederate Wars successfully, that they began calling them "traitors" and "Ormondists". Bellings spent 1644–45 as the Confederates' ambassador in continental...

attack and desired retribution against Inchiquin and his army, but the Ormondist faction saw the Sack of Cashel and a subsequent raid by Inchiquin's men...

to be loyal to Charles. In Ulster, there was a three sided war between Ormondist Royalists, Gaelic Catholics under Eoghan Ó Néill, and Presbyterian militia...

Limerick was besieged and O'Brien urged a resistance that infuriated the Ormondists and Parliamentarians. Following surrender he was denied quarter and protection...

Bedell. The extended family were part of a relict group of Protestant Ormondist Tories who continued to adhere to the Jacobite cause in Ireland. Following...

during the times of the Confederation of Kilkenny. He took sides with the Ormondists and gave encouragement to their opposition to the nuncio Giovanni Battista...