aBurntShip

                                        A novel in set in Ireland during the  Jacobite-Williamite Wars . On 5th November 1688  Dutch 'stadholder' William of Orange landed at Brixham with a force of 14,000 troops. His father in law James II, gave up the throne with very little fight, and went into exile. William and his wife Mary became joint monarchs. The change of regime was fairly trouble free for England and Wales, went not quite so smoothly in Scotland. Yet in Ireland war broke out. Both James and William  soon headed armies in Ireland, and at the battle of the Boyne of 12th July 1690, William defeated the supporters of James -the Jacobites- and seized control of Dublin. But war carried on well into 1691, even though both James and William left Ireland.  There is a great deal to admire in  the novel '1691' written by Irish historian and fiction writer Joe Joyce, perhaps better known for his novels set in Ireland in World War 2- or 'The Emergency' . The autho

                                                           But oh unlucky fate                                                           ah Curse upon Ambition:                                                         The busie Fops of State,                                                         have ruin'd his condition :                                                         For glittering hope he left his shade,                                                         his glorious hours are gone :                                                        By flattering Fools and Knaves betray'd,                                                        poor  Jemmy  is undone - Aphra Behn's  Young Jemmy: OR, The Princely Shepherd         'The Morning of Sedgemoor ' by Edgar Bundy  (1905) , Tate Britain, courtesy of 'Wikipedia'  Strangely prophetic words written by Aphra Behn and published in 1681, concerning the Duke of Monmouth. Ironically, after being defeated