The Battle of the Boyne was a central event not just in the history of Ireland but in the history of Europe. It confirmed the Protestant deposition of the Catholic James II from the thrones of the three kingdoms, Ireland, Scotland and England. Yet the Stuarts and their Jacobite supporters did not simply go away. For the next 60 years political intrigues across Britain and mainland Europe centred around the question of the legitimacy of those who sat on the throne in London as the British Empire began its ascent to world domination. Those in power in London were ever fearful of the possibility of a Stuart return, something which had its advocates in the three kingdoms, France and beyond. Jacobitism arguably ceased to be a serious threat after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, though the claims to the throne only finally ended for all but the most diehard Jacobites with the death of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, the Jacobite King Charles III, in 1788. This module will explore concepts of religious, political, cultural and national loyalty and intrigue in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe in this period as they related to the Jacobite cause.