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Ireland’s Wars: Knocknaclashy

Posted on Jul 2, 2014 by NFB

Donough McCarthy, the Viscount Muskerry, played a relatively small but vital part in the events of the day in the 1640s and 50’s. A Catholic nobleman with lands in West Munster, especially in Kerry, he had joined the Confederate cause … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Parliament On The Rise, Royalists In Retreat

Posted on Nov 13, 2013 by NFB

1647 dawned in Ireland. The island had seen five years and two months of warfare, with bitter defeat mixed with glorious triumph. The coming months would see little all out warfare, a sort of calm before the greater storm in … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Bunratty And Roscommon

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 by NFB

While Owen Roe O’Neill was winning one of the greatest Irish victories over British opposition in history, the Confederation of Kilkenny was also fighting elsewhere, campaigns against Inchiquin in Munster and Coote in Sligo. Rinuccini, when drawing his plans in … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The 1642 Siege Of Limerick

Posted on May 1, 2013 by NFB

The Confederate War, throughout its duration but especially in its early phases, would be a regional conflict, a fight where campaigns would be fought in provinces quite removed from one another, with armies and goals of a very different nature … Continue reading →

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