Today in Irish History, January 3, 1602, The Battle of Kinsale
The Decisive battle of the Nine Years War. By John Dorney On Christmas Eve 1601 by English reckoning and January 3 …
War and Famine in Ireland, 1580-1700
This article on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early …
The Munster Plantation and the MacCarthys, 1583-1597
The Munster Plantation – the English land confiscation and colonisation – hit the province after the Desmond Rebellions of the 1570s and …