The Irish Jacobite army

The Siege of Londonderry

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As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the...
Author/Editor: Piers Wauchope

The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–2022

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Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with...
Author/Editor: Eoin Kinsella

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

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The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by...
Author/Editor: James O'Neill

The Earldom of Desmond, 1463–1583

The decline and crisis of a feudal lordship

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Descended from one of the first Anglo-Norman invaders in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond came to dominate the political, economic and social life of...
Author/Editor: Anthony M. McCormack

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

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Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo-Norman...
Author/Editor: Paul MacCotter

The annals of the four masters

Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century

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There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, that allowed them to become accepted as an...
Author/Editor: Bernadette Cunningham

Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland, 1796–1922

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In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the...
Author/Editor: Tony Gaynor

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne