1641 Irish Confederate Wars

The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War, took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. The conflict in Ireland essentially pitted the native Irish Catholics against English and Scottish Protestant colonists and their supporters. It was both a religious and ethnic conflict – fought over who would govern Ireland, whether it would be governed from England, which ethnic and religious group would own most of the land and which religion would predominate in the country. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651, after all these three kingdoms had come under the rule of the same monarch (Charles I).