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[QUOTE="Bama fan, post: 2949478, member: 7757"]
I know full well that Northern Ireland is not the Irish Republic, and if you read what I wrote you would not be confused as to that. I know that William III was forced by political circumstance to oppose James and that his bigger fear was the French and Spanish.  But battles in 1690 and 1691 ,at the Boyne ,and at Aughrim resulted in the Williamite protestant victory over the Catholic forces.  So after they conquered the Irish, and took their land, and and suppressed their faith, the Irish were forced into a tenuous truce of sorts. Just because he wasn't the [B]most[/B] intolerant of the English kings , he was still despised by many there. But the point of this whole mess was that the Orange associated with William of Orange was a source of derision and anger for over 300 years among certain Irish. The Jacobites were not the best of  the bunch, but the "to hell or Cannacht ' English were hardly considerate of the Irish people. He may have tried to curb their "worst" tendencies, but their "regular" tendencies led directly to the genocide of the Irish in the starvation during the 1840s and 1850s.  Up the Republic and Go Huskies! :D
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