by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jul 31, 2022 | Irish to the Core
Off to Ireland – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 56 This week I will be winging my way to one of my favorite cities in the world, Dublin, Ireland with a fearless group of intrepid golfers, my friends from the Greenhorn Creek Golf Club here in the Motherlode of the...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jul 20, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Irish Confederate Wars 6 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 55 Last week I discussed how the Parliamentarian army gained ground in Ireland with the defection of Butler (Ormonde) in Dublin and Inchiquin in Cork to their side in 1647. This was of course because...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jul 11, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Irish Confederate Wars 5 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 54 Last week I discussed the negative impact of the “Cessation of Arms” truce with King Charles I’s Royalist Army in the 1643 -1646 timeframe. With the defeat of the Charles’ Royalist army in England...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jul 11, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Irish Confederate Wars 4 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 53 Last week I discussed the early years of the Irish Confederate Wars when the confederate army took control of all but the British strongholds of Dublin, Cork City and parts of Ulster. They seemed to...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jun 29, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Irish Confederate Wars Part 3 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 52 This is the one-year anniversary of my weekly blog Irish to the Core. I hope you are finding it helpful and interesting. In the last blog I discussed that the Confederate Wars in...