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Ireland’s Wars: The Flight Of The Earls

Posted on Sep 25, 2018 by NFB

The Nine Years War was finished, the English triumphant and the Irish rebels defeated. What was left was the aftermath. In this postbellum period, we must first look to some bizarre happenings further south, a strange half-rebellion that erupted in … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Mellifont

Posted on Sep 18, 2018 by NFB

The Nine Years War had reached its ninth year. The winter of 1602/03 had been a bitter one for the population of Ulster, and Ireland in general, who struggled to survive amidst the scourge of a famine, the weather and … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The End In Tyrone

Posted on Sep 11, 2018 by NFB

This is the second part of what was originally a single article, since split into two as part of a re-editing process. The first part can be found here. The English had routed the main Irish rebel armies and pacified … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The End In Tyrconnell

Posted on Sep 4, 2018 by NFB

This is the first part of what was previously a single post, now split as part of a re-editing process.  Having seen the last of the Nine Years War in Munster, and with the conflict long since wrapped up in Leinster, we … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Essex’s Downfall

Posted on Jun 19, 2018 by NFB

This was originally the second half of a larger entry, that I have decided to split as part of a revision/expansion. The first part can be found here. The first campaign that the Earl of Essex had led in Ireland … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Essex’s Munster Campaign

Posted on Jun 12, 2018 by NFB

I mentioned last week that the internal court politics of Elizabeth I reign had enough intrigue and conflict related to Ireland to fill up their own entry, but only a brief summation is required to set up what occurred in Ireland throughout … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Munster Rises For Hugh O’Neill

Posted on Jun 5, 2018 by NFB

The victory at the Yellow Ford had radically altered the strategic situation in Ireland. In the aftermath, with the northern confederation separating and returning home while the Pale waited with baited breath for a possible attack on its borders, both sides … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The Four Fronts From 1595 To 1597

Posted on May 22, 2018 by NFB

As 1595 wound down and 1596 began, the Nine Years War continued in its haphazard manner, still yet to evolve into the all or nothing struggle it was later to be defined as. In truth, around this period, the Nine … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: O’Neill’s Declaration And Clontibret

Posted on May 15, 2018 by NFB

In the aftermath of the victory outside Enniskillen, the combined forces of Hugh Roe O’Donnell and Hugh Maguire swept through northern Connacht, laying waste to all English settlements that they could find, enacting a slaughter that even pro-Irish sources are … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: A Summary Of The Nine Years War

Posted on Feb 27, 2013 by NFB

The Nine Years War was a brutal contest, and I hope that I have done something to make that clear in the mind of the reader. Such a long and drawn out affair requires some reflection and more elaborated final … Continue reading →

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