‘Dan of the Feathers’
A look at the legend and reality of Donal ‘of the feathers’ MacCarthy, by Chevalier William F.K. Marmion, M.A. After 400 years …
Book Review: Reshaping Ireland 1550-1700, Colonisation and its Consequences
Book Review: Reshaping Ireland 1550-1700, Colonisation and its Consequences Edited by Brian Mac Cuarta Four Courts Press, 2011 Reviewer: John Dorney The …
James Fitzgerald at Kilmallock – The Protestant Reformation fails in Ireland
Kilmallock 1600. An episode of the failure of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland. By John Dorney In the summer of 1600, …
An Irishman in Exile, Florence MacCarthy in London, 1601-1640.
John Dorney writes of Gaelic aristocrat Florence MacCarthy’s imprisonment and the Anglicisation of Munster. 1601-1640. You can read about Florence MacCarthy’s life …
War and Famine in Ireland, 1580-1700
This article on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early …
Ellen MacCarthy – The Survivor
John Dorney looks at the life of Ellen MacCarthy, who survived the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ireland. And her marriage. It is …
The MacCarthys and the Nine Years War in Munster. 1595-1603
The Nine Years saw the final conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the Elizabethans. John Dorney looks at how it affected one powerful …