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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Desmond
Rebellions occurred in 1569-1573 and 1579-1583 in the Irish province of
Munster. They were rebellions by the Earl of Desmond - head of the
FitzGerald dynasty in Munster - and his followers, the Geraldines and
their allies against the threat of the extension of Elizabethan English
government over the province. The rebellions were motivated primarily by
the desire to maintain the independence of feudal lords from their
monarch, but also had an element of religious antagonism between
Catholic Geraldines and the Protestant English state. The result was the
destruction of the Desmond dynasty and the subsequent plantation or
colonisation of Munster with English settlers. 'Desmond' is the
Anglicisation given to the Irish Deasmumhain, which translates to 'South
Munster'
