‘Dan of the Feathers’
A look at the legend and reality of Donal ‘of the feathers’ MacCarthy, by Chevalier William F.K. Marmion, M.A. After 400 years …
The MacCarthys and the Nine Years War in Munster. 1595-1603
The Nine Years saw the final conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the Elizabethans. John Dorney looks at how it affected one powerful …
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 …