Stephen Finlay Archer

Stephen Finlay Archer  Dear Irish Adventurers, Last week I shared with you my interview with Logan Crawford and the book trailer for The Irish Clans: Book One: Searchers. I hope you enjoyed watching them. Author Reputation Press has...

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...

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 Charles I had...

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 in 1646, the...

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 have the...

  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 Ireland started in Ulster...

In the last blog I discussed the conflict within England and Scotland during the reign of Charles I from 1625 to 1649. Now let us begin to see how that affected Ireland. The conflict in Ireland had political,...

The last few blogs have dealt with the conquest of the Irish Clans and Gaelic way of life by the English in the period 1580 to 1610. With the British victory at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602 and the flight of the...

Today I want to give you more information on Sir Henry Docwra, soldier/politician, a compatriot of Sir George Carew and William Temple, who played a large part in the demise of the Gaelic way of life. Born in...