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).
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.
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] |