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Ireland had a role to play in the Popish Plot from the outset. Amongst many other things, Titus Oates had claimed that the Catholic archbishop of Tuam, James Lynch intended ‘to procure some Persons to dispatch the king’.1 Furthermore, there were plans to facilitate ‘the French king’s landing in Ireland … the Irish Catholics were ready to rise, in order to which, there was forty thousand black bills provided, to furnish the Irish soldiers withal’.2 The Jesuits were also implicated: Peter Talbot, the Catholic archbishop of Dublin, had supposedly claimed that ‘the fathers of the society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to arise, for the defence of their liberty and religion, and to recover their estates’.3 Emissaries were sent to Ireland to lay the ground for a rebellion, and within months the Irish were reportedly ready to rise. Ormond was supposedly ‘in a great perplexity, to see Catholic religion thrive so well’, and there were many who, at the behest of the Jesuits, ‘resolve to cut the Protestants throats again, when once they rise’.4
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Gibney, J. (2009). The Popish Plot in Ireland, September 1678–May 1679. In: Ireland and the Popish Plot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594791_3
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