Communal uprisings spread to the rest of…
January 1642 CE
Communal uprisings spread to the rest of Ireland.
Munster is the last region to witness such disturbances; the rebellion in Munster is in fact largely a product of the severe martial law William St. Leger has imposed upon the province.
Many Irish Catholic lords who have lost lands or fear dispossession join the rebellion and participate in the attacks on the settlers.
The attacks at this stage, however, usually involve the beating and robbing rather than the killing of Protestants.
Historian Nicholas Canny writes, "most insurgents seemed anxious for a resolution of their immediate economic difficulties by seizing the property of any of the settlers. These popular attacks did not usually result in loss of life, nor was it the purpose of the insurgents to kill their victims. However they were always gruesome affairs because they involved face to face confrontations between people who had long known each other. A typical offensive involved a group of Irish descending upon a Protestant family and demanding, at knife point, that they surrender their moveable goods. Killings usually only occurred where Protestants resisted."
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