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 …
This is an interview with early modern historian Padraig Lenihan on the writing of Irish history from the 16th century down to …
Kilmallock 1600. An episode of the failure of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland. By John Dorney In the summer of 1600, …
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 …
Conquest and Land in Ireland – The Transplantation to Connacht 1649-1680. By John Cunningham Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2011. Reviewer: John …
This article on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early …
Cromwell’s sack of Drogheda and the massacre of the Royalist garrison by the New Model Army in 1649. By John Dorney On …
Historian Padraig Lenihan talks about the battle of Aughrim, fought on the 12th of July 1691, the bloodiest battle in Irish …