Weatherday: Remembering Aughrim

Wildflower treasures on Nicholastown Green.

Cloud and bright spells today, the latter with scattered showers later in the afternoon. Some of these will be heavy and thundery.

Temperature highs of 20deg in light northerly breeze.

On this day in 1796, the Orange Order held its first 'Twelfth' demonstration, a hundred and six years after William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne, actually to commemorate 1691 Battle of Aughrim in Co Galway, the decisive and bloodiest encounter of the Williamite War.

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