O’KELLY, Charles. The Jacobite War in Ireland (1688 – 1691). By Charles O’Kelly, Colonel in King James’s Army. Edited by George Noble Count Plunkett and The Rev. Edm. Hogan.

Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1894. Slim octavo. Second edition. pp. xii, 115, 1. Stiff paper wrappers. Spine repaired. A very good copy. Scarce.
Charles O’Kelly (1621-1695) Irish soldier and writer was born at the Castle of Aughrane, Clonlyon, Aughrim, County Galway, son of John O’Kelly and Isma Hill, daughter of Sir William of Ballybeg, County Carlow. He was educated at St. Omer. He first saw action in Ireland in 1642, fighting on the Irish side against Cromwell. He inherited Aughrim in 1674, and was elected member of parliament (MP) for Roscommon County in 1689. He again fought, this time as a colonel, in the Williamite War in Ireland, serving at Aughrim and Limerick. Afterwards he served as an officer in the French and Spanish armies. He later authored Macariae Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprus, containing the Last Warr and Conquest of that Kingdom, which contains the only account of the battle of Aughrim by a native of the area.
A first person account of the Jacobite war. Covering: The Landing of James in Ireland; Irish Parliament of 1689; The Boyne; First Siege of Limerick; Sarsfield surprised the convoy; The Wild Geese, etc.

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