Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet explained

Sir Ulick Burke
Honorific Suffix:Bt
Native Name:Ulliac Búrca
Native Name Lang:Irish
Office:MP for County Galway
Term Start:1689
Term End:1692
Alongside:Sir Walter Blake, 6th Bt
Death Date:1708
Spouse:Ismay Kelly
Children:None
Parents:Edmund Burke, 2nd Baronet
Relatives:John Burke, 4th Baronet (half-brother)

Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet (; ; died 1708) of Glinsk, was an Irish landowner and politician in County Galway who was MP for Galway (1689–92).

Career

He was the son of Sir Edmund Burke, 2nd Baronet. The family resided at Glinsk Castle. Ulick Burke espoused the cause of King James II and was an MP for County Galway in the Patriot Parliament of 1689, and was included in the articles of the Treaty of Limerick. He married Ismay, fourth daughter of Colonel John Kelly of Skreen, County Roscommon. He died without issue in 1708 and was succeeded by his half brother, John Burke, 4th Baronet.

Lament for Sir Ulick Burke Marbhna Uillioc Búrca

Sir Ulick was immortalised by the Irish composer and musician Turlough O'Carolan is his songs Ulliac Búrca (Ulick Burke) and Marbhna Uillioc Búrca (Lament for Sir Ulick Burke).

Crest:Out of a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers Argent.
Escutcheon:Or, a cross Gules in the dexter canton a lion rampant sable
Motto:IN HOC SIGNO VINCES (In this sign thou shalt conquer)[1]

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  1. Book: Burke, Bernard . Bernard Burke . The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time . 1884 . Harrison & Sons . London . University of California Libraries.