Boyne from battlefield to playground

[between the bridges]

catalpa---Both kings commanded their armies in person assisted by a number of men of high rank and status. King William had under his orders English, Scottish, Dutch, Danish, French Huguenots and Protestants from Ireland. King James Army mainly consisted of Catholic Irishmen, and a scattering of Englishmen loyal to the Stuarts.

i stopped reading after this any one making serious comments on the battle of the boyne should mention the small number of french that fought for king James i.e 7000...funny how you could miss out on a third of the troops!!

[Galloper Thompson]

If yiz'd won there'd be some crowin' so there would !

Well if uuz won, how come ya dont have the Boyne........

[between the bridges]

Well if uuz won, how come ya dont have the Boyne........

i think wes is irish, and maybe you don't want me to tell you who owns a good part of the boyne site?!!! (think of a bright colour)

[Galloper Thompson]

i think wes is irish, and maybe you don't want me to tell you who owns a good part of the boyne site?!!! (think of a bright colour)

Yeh I know, I think I had a friendly joust with Schom. a while back, or was it you.....4 Orange Order acres.....was that donated or did they buy it....certainly wasnt aquired in battle. Hows the Orange Gold project coming along?

[between the bridges]

Yeh I know, I think I had a friendly joust with Schom. a while back, or was it you.....4 Orange Order acres.....was that donated or did they buy it....certainly wasnt aquired in battle. Hows the Orange Gold project coming along?

about the same rate as the rebuilding the obelisk project!!

[Galloper Thompson]

about the same rate as the rebuilding the obelisk project!!

Ouch........

[Frosty1]

oh my frosty you are annoyed at moi? i wonder why? do tell the good folks about all the claims you have made on p.ie..your 15, you own 4 houses, you voted Conservative, you're a true blooded ulster scot, lol forgetting that you had already said your mum was RC...run away little troll...

You getting jealous you bitter dick? Thank god I am not like you Orangemen. Look at the shape of ye did you see what you just said. Arguing about a battle 400 years ago for flip sake get over it. Just face it your all out to wind or if not get drunk and make a fool of yourselves. If Catholics did the same you'd have a fit. Thankfully that bitter sectarian organization is a dying breed. And as a matter of a fact I do own 4 houses. All 4 houses were earned by my dad who was out helping the community from days Like yours. I've heard it all and I've yet to hear the orange order doing anything good. And I'll probably get attacked for this but you know what. I'm the braver one for telling the truth and seeing past bigotry.

[between the bridges]

You getting jealous you bitter dick? Thank god I am not like you Orangemen. Look at the shape of ye did you see what you just said. Arguing about a battle 400 years ago for flip sake get over it. Just face it your all out to wind or if not get drunk and make a fool of yourselves. If Catholics did the same you'd have a fit. Thankfully that bitter sectarian organization is a dying breed. And as a matter of a fact I do own 4 houses. All 4 houses were earned by my dad who was out helping the community from days Like yours. I've heard it all and I've yet to hear the orange order doing anything good. And I'll probably get attacked for this but you know what. I'm the braver one for telling the truth and seeing past bigotry.

nice rant diddmumz its your daddy that owns four houses not you? oh right easy mistake to make, just like the one about you been 15 and telling us who you voted for and when queried you say oh it wasn't me it was my dad!! lol i will not bother with all the other BS you have been found out on! btw i wouldn't have thought i was in your target age group? and yes frosty you are very brave on the internet while pretending to be a teenager...

[between the bridges]

Ouch........

from that you can tell it must have been an impressive structure, regardless of ones view on what it represented.

[PO'Neill]

Turns outt that William and the ' Glorious Revolution ' was not as benign as some would like to believeand teh real motives for tokenism to Catholics.

Appearently at the time William needed peace in Ireland, and he had an interest in placating European Catholic opinion. Britain had joined the League of Augsburg, an alliance of European powers whose aim was to limit the expansion of France under Louis XIV. The League was definitely an ecumenical affair; it included such Catholic powers as Austria, Spain and the Holy See. Hence William didn't wish to appear to be gratuitously anti-Catholic. Plus, he wanted peace in Ireland to free up military resources for the League's campaigns.

But the power-politics shifted in 1693, when the papacy wanted James II as the king. Thereafter William was less interested in placating papal opinion, and genuinely concerned that the loyalty of his Catholic subjects was suspect. Hence the change of policy.