The Irish Jacobite army

The Siege of Londonderry

Piers Wauchope

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that floo…

The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–2022

Eoin Kinsella

Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in ta…

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

James O'Neill

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…

The Earldom of Desmond, 1463–1583

The decline and crisis of a feudal lordship

Anthony M. McCormack

Descended from one of the first Anglo-Norman invaders in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond came to dominate the political, economic and social lif…

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

Paul MacCotter

Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo…

The annals of the four masters

Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century

Bernadette Cunningham

There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, that allowed them to become accepted as an authentic,…

Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland, 1796–1922

Tony Gaynor

In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in …

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

Catherine Wynne

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimea…