by Stephen Finlay Archer | May 5, 2022 | Irish to the Core
Slash and Burn Conquest – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 46 I have written before of Britain’s scorched earth tactics to conquer Ireland in the Desmond Rebellions of the 1580s, resulting in the deaths of one third of the population of Munster from either...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Apr 29, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Flight of the Earls – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 45 As described in the historical background section of The Irish Clans: Book Three: Rising, Red Hugh and Rory O’Donnell survived the battle of Kinsale. They held council with The O’Neill the next evening...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Apr 21, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Fateful Battle of Kinsale – Irish to the Core – Weekly Blog 44 After the Spanish forces under Don Juan Aguila had been under siege for three months by Lord Mountjoy’s troops, they continued to hunker down in Kinsale in December 1601, waiting for relief...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Apr 13, 2022 | Irish to the Core
Convergence for the Fateful Battle of Kinsale – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 43 Last week I described the efforts by the brutal, conquering English in Munster in the late 1500s, and of the brave, defending Irish Chieftains leading up to the fateful Battle of...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Apr 6, 2022 | Irish to the Core
The Third Desmond Rebellion – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 42 During and after the Second Desmond Rebellion the British lay waste to Munster and started planting Protestant Englishmen on the lands they had seized. For example, Sir Walter Raleigh, in part for...
