Life
1630-1691; Earl of Tyrconnell and James II’s Viceroy of Ireland, 1687-89; called ‘Richard Teague’ in “Lilliburlero”; lord lieutenant in Ireland under appointment by absent James II; commander of Catholic cavalry at Boyne; object of poetic celebration by Daibhí Ó Bruadair; the object of much Protestant criticism for his management of the state during the period of the Jacobite parliament in Dublin, while Macauley later called him ‘lying Dick Talbot ... Bully, Bravo, Pimp, Sychopant, Hypocrite’. DNB DIB
1630-1691; Earl of Tyrconnell and James II’s Viceroy of Ireland, 1687-89; called ‘Richard Teague’ in “Lilliburlero”; lord lieutenant in Ireland under appointment by absent James II; commander of Catholic cavalry at Boyne; object of poetic celebration by Daibhí Ó Bruadair; the object of much Protestant criticism for his management of the state during the period of the Jacobite parliament in Dublin, while Macauley later called him ‘lying Dick Talbot ... Bully, Bravo, Pimp, Sychopant, Hypocrite’. DNB DIB
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Notes
Patrick Kennedy, Modern Irish Anecdotes [n.d.]: to his wife belongs
the credit of the retort to James’s saying, ‘Madam, I congratulate
you on the swiftness of your countrymen in retreat’; ‘Your majesty
deserves a higher compliment, for you have outstripped the fleetest of
them.’ (p.12.)
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