Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet

Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet (English: /ˈjuːlɪk/ YOO-lik; 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).

Coat of arms of Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet

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]

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

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

• Carolan's song Ulliac Búrca

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