Hugh O’Neill and Nine Years War, 1594-1603
By John Dorney In the early part of the 16th century the English Tudor monarchs had embarked on a project to bring …
‘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 …
An Irishman in Exile, Florence MacCarthy in London, 1601-1640.
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 …
Florence MacCarthy, the last MacCarthy Mor, 1560-1640
John Dorney looks at the career of Florence MacCarthy, one of a generation of Gaelic aristocrats swept away by the Elizabethan English conquest …