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active 1867 John Boyle

Known mainly for a single 19th-century history of Ireland, this little-documented writer is remembered for a vivid account of the Williamite war and its major battles. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the work an air of old-library mystery.

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The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 : including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it

The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 : including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it

by active 1867 John Boyle

About the author

John Boyle is listed in library and public-domain records as an author active in 1867. The work reliably associated with him is The Battle-Fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691, a historical narrative about the Jacobite and Williamite conflict in Ireland.

Because the available biographical record is so thin, very little about his life can be confirmed from standard reference sources found here. What can be said with confidence is that his name remains attached to that 1867 volume, which has continued to circulate through digitized archives and classic-book collections.

For listeners interested in Irish history, Boyle's appeal is less about a well-known personal story and more about the period he chose to chronicle: sieges, shifting loyalties, and some of the most memorable battle sites in 17th-century Ireland.