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Book A Study of the Published Narratives of the Irish Wars 1595 1603

Download or read book A Study of the Published Narratives of the Irish Wars 1595 1603 written by Raymond Anthony SOUTHERN and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nine Years War  1593 1603

Download or read book The Nine Years War 1593 1603 written by James Joseph O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English crown caused Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, to build an unprecedented confederation of Irish lords leading a new Irish military armed with pike and shot. This book is an important reassessment of the military dimensions of the Nine Years War, as situated in the wider context of European political and military history. Backed by Philip II of Spain, Tyrone and his allies outclassed the forces of the English Crown, achieving a string of stunning victories and bringing the power of Elizabeth I in Ireland to the brink of collapse. The opening shots were fired in Ulster, but from 1593 to 1599 war engulfed all of Ireland. The conflict consumed the lives and reputations of Elizabeth's court favourites as they struggled to cope with the new Irish way of war. Sophisticated strategy and modern tactics made the Irish war appear unwinable to many in England, but Lord Mountjoy's arrival as deputy in 1600 changed everything. Mountjoy reformed the demoralized English army and rolled back the advances achieved by Tyrone. Mountjoy's success was crowned by his shattering defeat of Tyrone and his Spanish allies at Kinsale in 1601, which ultimately led to the earl's submission in 1603, though not before famine, misery and atrocity took their toll on the people of Ireland. This book rewrites the narrative and interpretation of the Nine Years War. It uses military evidence to show that not only was Irish society progressive, it was also quicker to adopt military and technological change than its English enemies. *** "Archaeologist O'Neill has written a highly informative study of the earl of Tyrone's long war to free Gallic Ireland from English rule. This is the first full treatment of the entire course of the war that brought English rule in Ireland to the point of collapse by 1598. Extensively documented with a useful glossary of military terms. Recommended." --Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7, March 2018 [Subject: Political History. Military History, Hugh O'Neill, Kinsale, Lord Mountjoy, Warfare, 16th-Century, Philip II of Spain, Irish Studies]

Book The Irish Wars 1485   1603

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Heath
  • Publisher : Osprey Publishing
  • Release : 1993-03-25
  • ISBN : 9781855322806
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Irish Wars 1485 1603 written by Ian Heath and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation in England further distanced the Irish, as the majority of Irishmen adhered stubbornly to their Catholicism. Eventually, in Elizabeth's reign, both sides resorted to the use of force on a large scale in a series of bloody wars and rebellions that were to culminate in the Earl of Tyrone's "Great Rebellion" of 1595-1603. This text by Ian Heath looks at the history, organization and tactics of the armies of the Irish Wars (1485-1603), armies which included such troops as the fearsome Irish Galloglasses, who bore a deadly axe six feet long with a blade that was one foot broad!

Book English Warfare  1511 1642

Download or read book English Warfare 1511 1642 written by Mark Charles Fissell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Warfare 1511-1642 chronicles and analyses military operations from the reign of Henry VIII to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Tudor and Stuart periods laid the foundations of modern English military power. Henry VIII's expeditions, the Elizabethan contest with Catholic Europe, and the subsequent commitment of English troops to the Protestant cause by James I and Charles I, constituted a sustained military experience that shaped English armies for subsequent generations. Drawing largely from manuscript sources, English Warfare 1511-1642 includes coverage of: *the military adventures of Henry VIII in France, Scotland and Ireland *Elizabeth I's interventions on the continent after 1572, and how arms were perfected *conflict in Ireland *the production and use of artillery *the development of logistics *early Stuart military actions and the descent into civil war. English Warfare 1511-1642 demolishes the myth of an inexpert English military prior to the upheavals of the 1640s.

Book Introducing Literary Studies

Download or read book Introducing Literary Studies written by Richard Bradford and published by Harvester Wheat. This book was released on 1996 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single-volume comprehensive introduction to English literature. Brings together 30 units of study, organized into three major parts: the basics of structure and criticism; chronology; and critical theories and perspectives. This is the first book to fill the gap between introductory studies of single authors, genres and periods, and standard references such as handbooks and glossaries. Students of English literature.

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

Download or read book Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau written by S. Haines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

Book Ulster Since 1600

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liam Kennedy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0199583110
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Ulster Since 1600 written by Liam Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of the province from the plantations of the early seventeenth century to partition and the formation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s, and onwards to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. A major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ulster's contested place in the British and the wider world.

Book Swords Around the Cross

Download or read book Swords Around the Cross written by Timothy T. O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swords Around the Cross presents one of the few full-length treatments of the heroic struggle of the Irish clansmen in their effort to defend their faith and country against English encroachment and conquest in the sixteenth century. This book has infuriated establishment academics for its honest and thorough treatment of the Irish past. In so doing, the image of a "golden age" under Elizabeth I is dealt a serious blow.

Book Longman Companion to English Literature

Download or read book Longman Companion to English Literature written by Christopher Gillie and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book The Reign of Elizabeth I

Download or read book The Reign of Elizabeth I written by John Alexander Guy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the politics and political culture of the 'last decade' of the reign of Elizabeth I, in effect the years 1585 to 1603. It argues that this period was so distinctive that it amounted to the second of two 'reigns'. It also invites readers, at times provocatively, to take a critical look at the declining Virgin Queen. Many teachers and their students have failed to consider the 'last decade' in its own right, or have ignored it, having begun their accounts in 1558 and struggled on to the defeat of the Armada in 1588. Only two major political surveys have been attempted since 1926. Both consider mainly the war with Spain and the politics of war, and each allots inadequate space to Crown patronage, puritanism and religion, society and the economy, political thought, and literature and drama. This book, written by some of the leading scholars of their generation, will be indispensable to a fuller understanding of the age.

Book Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars

Download or read book Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars written by David Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elizabeth I succeeded to the thorne in 1558 her government was already involved in wars of conquest and containment in different parts of Ireland. Before her death in 1603 there would be many more. This book gathers together 19 journals of the Elizabethan campaigns, recording military operations by crown forces in all four provinces on land and at sea. The journals cover every aspect of fighting, from preparation to the often bloody aftermath, and offers unique insights into the Tudor conquest and how it was experienced by those who took part. Though they are key historical sources, the journals have been largely neglected by modern scholarship. This represents the first publication in their entirety of many of these sources, including those previously noted in the calendars of State Papers. The journals gathered here demonstrate the importance of record-keeping for Elizabeth's commanders, and the central role of soldering in their sense of themselves and their place in history. -- Publisher description

Book Interpolations in Bede s Ecclesiastical History and Other Ancient Annals Affecting the Early History of Scotland and Ireland

Download or read book Interpolations in Bede s Ecclesiastical History and Other Ancient Annals Affecting the Early History of Scotland and Ireland written by James Watson (of Peebles.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English

Download or read book The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English written by Ian Ousby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the parent Guide to Literature in English, this volume offers in concise form over 4,000 entries on literature in English from cultures throughout the world. Writers and major works from the UK and the USA are represented, as are those from Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, India, and Africa. The coverage is broad - from the classics of English literature to the best of modern writing. Additionally, the Guide has a wealth of entries on literary movements, groups or schools in literature and criticism, literary magazines, genres and sub-genres, critical concepts, and rhetorical terms.

Book Interpolations in Bede s Ecclesiastical History and Other Ancient Annals Affecting the Early History of Scotland and Ireland

Download or read book Interpolations in Bede s Ecclesiastical History and Other Ancient Annals Affecting the Early History of Scotland and Ireland written by James Watson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book Subject Index of Books Added 1894 1903

Download or read book Subject Index of Books Added 1894 1903 written by National Library of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: