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Charles O’Kelly, Irish

Irish people

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soldier

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and author

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, 1621-1695.

O'Kelly was born at Screen or Clonlyon, Aughrim, County Galway

Aughrim, County Galway

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, son of John O’Kelly and Isma Hill, daughter of Sir William of Ballybeg, County Carlow

County Carlow

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. He was educated at St. Omer. He first saw action in Ireland in 1642.

He inherited Aughrim in 1674, and was elected MP

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for Roscommon

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in 1689. He again fought, this time as a colonel

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, in the Williamite War in Ireland

Williamite war in Ireland

The Williamite War in Ireland—also called the Jacobite War in Ireland, the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland and in Irish as Cogadh an Dá Rí —was a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland...

, serving at Aughrim and Limerick

Limerick

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. He later authored Macariae Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprus, containing the Last Warr and Conquest of that Kingdom, which contains the only account of the battle of Aughrim by a native of the area.

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http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter35.html
http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/o/OKelly,C/life.htm

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