Age of atrocity

Violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland

David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan, editors

Early modern Ireland: a history of violence
Clodagh Tait, David Edwards & Pádraig Lenihan

The escalation of violence in sixteenth-century Ireland
David Edwards

Atrocity and history: Grey, Spenser and the slaughter at Smerwick (1580)
Vincent P. Carey

‘Slán Dé fút go hoíche’: Hugh O’Neill’s murders
Hiram Morgan

The pacification of Ulster, 1600-3
John McGurk

‘The just vengeance of God’: reporting the violent deaths of persecutors in early modern Ireland
Clodagh Tait

Religious violence against settlers in south Ulster, 1641-2 
Brian Mac Cuarta

The other massacre: English killings of Irish, 1641-3
Kenneth Nicholls

Archaeology of massacre: the Carrickmines mass grave and the siege of March 1642
Mark Clinton, Linda Fibiger & Damian Shiels

Inventing an Irish Protestant icon: the strange death of Sir Charles Coote, 1642
Kevin Forkan

‘Escaping massacre’: refugees in Scotland in the aftermath of the 1641 Ulster Rebellion
John R. Young

The Drogheda massacre in Cromwellian context
John Morrill

Propaganda, rumour and myth: Oliver Cromwell and the massacre at Drogheda
Micheál Ó Siochrú

The laws of war in seventeenth-century Europe and their application during the Jacobite War in Ireland, 1688-91
John Childs