Hugh O’Neill and Nine Years War, 1594-1603
By John Dorney In the early part of the 16th century the English Tudor monarchs had embarked on a project ot bring …
Irish Clans in the Sixteenth century
By John Dorney The word clan seems to have entered English via Scots Gaelic, where it was used to describe the social …
Padraig Lenihan on contesting Irish history
This is an interview with early modern historian Padraig Lenihan on the writing of Irish history from the 16th century down to …
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 …
Writing Irish History – The Four Masters and Their World
John Dorney takes a look at the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute’s online exhibition on 17th century Irish Historians. Why do people write history? …
Florence MacCarthy, the last MacCarthy Mor, 1560-1640
John Dorney looks at the career of Florence MacCarthy, one of a generation of Gaelic aristocrats swept away by the Elizabethan English conquest …