234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2)

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Restoration reinstates the monarchy in England, Scotland & Ireland, and Irish Catholics believe that they will get their lands back for their loyalty to the king. And when the openly Catholic King James II succeeds his older brother, they are even more hopeful. But English Protestants fear that his reign will lead to a Catholic dynasty, and invite the Dutch William of Orange to take the throne. James II flees to France and gathers troops to back his cause. He arrives on the coast of Ireland in 1689 to reclaim his crown. When news of this reaches Parliament, William of Orange heads to Ireland to meet his enemy on the battlefield. In the Boyne Valley near Dublin, the two kings clash in a battle that continues to be memorialised in Ireland today. But was it that militarily important? And how did the Battle of the Boyne play into the chessboard of European geopolitics? Listen as Anita and William are joined once again by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to discuss how the Battle of the Boyne shaped Protestant identity in Ireland. _____________ Empire UK Live Tour: The Booze & Brews live show is going on a UK tour! William and Anita will be discussing the extraordinary history of ordinary drinks such as tea, Indian Pale Ale and gin & tonic, highlighting how interconnected our drinks cabinets are with the British Empire. Tickets are on sale NOW, to buy your tickets head to aegp.uk/EmpireLive2025. Empire Club: Become a member of the Empire Club to receive early access to miniseries, ad-free listening, early access to live show tickets, bonus episodes, book discounts, and a weekly newsletter! Head to empirepoduk.com to sign up or start a free trial on Apple Podcasts. Email: [email protected] Instagram: @empirepoduk Blue Sky: @empirepoduk X: @empirepoduk goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Anouska Lewis Senior Producer: Callum Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.4	newsletter, sign up to Empire Club at www.mpowerpod.uk.com.
0:21.8	Empire listeners, I am very excited to tell you that our sold-out London live show,
0:27.7	booze and brews, is going on a UK tour and tickets are on sale now.
0:32.8	We are going to tell the story of all your favourite drinks and how they are linked to
0:36.5	Empire from Indian pale ale to G&D.
0:39.9	Look, I know the clink of a drink. It's not a sound we're unfamiliar with, but it is the
0:44.7	appearance of these drinks in history and the stories that inform them. So we want to take a little
0:49.4	bit of a closer look at all of that. Yes, we've got all sorts of strange stories for you from
0:53.3	early East India
0:54.4	company men who were so afraid of drinking the water in India that they drank alcohol for breakfast,
0:59.8	a breakfast, lunch and dinner in fact. Yes, I know. All of them, let's not be discriminatory here.
1:04.5	It was quite pervasive of all. It was an equal meal opportunity. Don't worry, if you don't drink,
1:09.9	we're also going to be looking at the extraordinary history of tea.
1:13.9	And I'm going to tell you what, if you think the British love tea now, you should have seen the 18th and 19th centuries.
1:18.5	They imported so much tea from China that taxes on it earned the same amount of money for the government as all tax on land, property and income.
1:29.8	And in fact, that's what they had to start the opium trade, wasn't it, and fight the opium
1:33.2	wars. But that is another story.
1:35.0	It is if I feel like we're telling too much. But look, we're just bursting. You can tell
1:38.3	we're bursting with stories. And that's not the only thing that's going to be bursting
1:41.0	on our show because I got the story of one of my ancestors who exploded out of a barrel of rum.
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