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Definition of Drogheda

1. Noun. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drogheda

Literary usage of Drogheda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1818)
"lord the king upon their oath say and present, that Patrick Kenny of Drogheda yeoman, Matthew Read of the same yeoman, Bartholomew Walsh of the same yeoman, ..."

2. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"CHAPTER V Drogheda AND WEXFORD THE first news which met Cromwell on his landing was that Ormond, whose constancy in adversity was as great as his ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1825)
"The injustice of this exclusion was the more manifest, as the proportion of Catholics to protestants in Drogheda, with respect to numbers, was nine to one ..."

4. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1891)
"Very much the same miserable story came from Drogheda. ... arrived Drogheda was free. It had been with no goodwill that the Lords Justices had sent forth ..."

5. The Irish Rebellion of 1641: With a History of the Events which Led Up to by Ernest Hamilton (1920)
"Drogheda ran an appreciable risk of sharing the same fate, ... When the rising first broke out, the government of Drogheda was in the hands of a weak and ..."

6. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1894)
"CHAPTER V. Drogheda AND WEXFORD. THE first news which met Cromwell on his landing was that Ormond, whose constancy in adversity 'was as great as his ..."

7. Black's Guide to Ireland by R. T. Lang, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) (1902)
"Drogheda along the north side of the Boyne leads to the obelisk marking the site where, on the 1st July 1690, the troops of William of Orange crossed the ..."

8. The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly (1870)
"100 (passed in August, 1836), no conveyance of lands in certain corporations (of which Drogheda was one), was to be made, unless in pursuance of a covenant, ..."

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