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The Second Ormonde Peace creates an alliance between the Irish Royalists and Confederates during the War of the Three Kingdoms. The coalition was then decisively defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
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Second Ormonde Peace
1649 treaty in Ireland
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Royalist supporter in the English Civil War
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Confederate Ireland
Period of Irish Catholic self-government (1642–49)
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Wars of the Three Kingdoms
British civil wars, 1639–1653
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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Military campaign (1649–1653)
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