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Rathmines, battle of

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Rathmines, battle of (2 Aug. 1649), a victory over the earl of Ormond's forces by the parliamentary garrison of Dublin under Col. Michael Jones, ending royalist hopes of taking the city (see confederate war). Edmund O'Reilly, later Catholic archbishop of Armagh, was subsequently alleged to have aided Jones by having Ormond's men led astray by their guide.

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Rathmines, battle of

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Rathmines, battle of, 1649. In June 1649 Michael Jones and the parliamentary forces were besieged in Dublin by Ormond. Reinforcements from England enabled him on 2 August to make a sortie and destroy Ormond's camp at Rathmines.

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