Elizabeth I dies and James VI of Scotland accedes to the English throne becoming James ... marks the end of the power of Ireland's Gaelic aristocracy. Derry formally becomes Londonderry with ...

The 105-day-long siege began with James being refused entry to the city on April 18 1689. Yet, curiously the Apprentice Boys of Derry choose not to commemorate this at least as dramatic episode ...

And an ironic footnote is that the formal title of the Dublin Parliament’s 1703 statute which obliged holders of public office to be communicants in the Church of Ireland ... 1688-9 Siege of ...

James's accession meant that the three separate kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland were now united ... of Hanover came to inherit the English throne. The first Africans who arrived in ...