Colliding worlds? Shane the Proud and the advance of the Tudors in Ireland
By John Dorney In 1562, Shane O’Neill, lord of the powerful O’Neill dynasty in Ulster, arrived at the Court of Queen Elizabeth …
By John Dorney In 1562, Shane O’Neill, lord of the powerful O’Neill dynasty in Ulster, arrived at the Court of Queen Elizabeth …
By John Dorney In the early part of the 16th century the English Tudor monarchs had embarked on a project to bring …
By John Dorney The word clan seems to have entered English via Scots Gaelic, where it was used to describe the social …
The Decisive battle of the Nine Years War. By John Dorney On Christmas Eve 1601 by English reckoning and January 3 …
John Dorney looks at rival Catholic accounts of the 1641 rebellion. The Irish insurrection of 1641-42 began with an abortive plot by …
The second part of a two part article on the fall of the House of Desmond and the apocalyptic destruction of the …
The first part of a two part article on the fall of the House of Desmond. BY John Dorney Not far outside …