War of the Two Kings

47 page full colour graphic novel - Few events in modern Irish history have had as dramatic an impact on the entire island of Ireland as the conflict between James Stuart and William of Orange for the kingdoms of Ireland, England, and Scotland. The war in Ireland between 1689-1691 was for James the only available means by which he could regain his lost crown. For William it was an annoyance that prevented him from bringing the military might and resources of England to bear against the French King Louis XIV in Europe, who aided the Jacobites in order to distract Orange. For the Catholic Irish, who supported the banished Stuart king’s cause, it was the only light amidst the darkness of the Cromwellian Settlement, that illuminated the path to religious & civil liberty.

Poyntz and Grace portray this epic struggle from James’ arrival at Kinsale, the startling Siege of Derry, the bungled Battle of the Boyne, to the ferocious Siege of Limerick in 1690, that marked the end of James and William’s direct command of the opposing Jacobite and Williamite forces in Ireland during the war.