Stephen Finlay Archer
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 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 Charles I had...
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 in 1646, the...
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 have the...
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 Ireland started in Ulster...
The Irish Confederate Wars Part 2 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 51
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 Irish Confederate War 1 – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 50
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...
Sir Henry Docwra – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 49
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...
Sir George Carew – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 48
In the last blog I mentioned that George Carew was a compatriot of Sir William Temple, 4th Provost of Trinity College in Ireland. They were born and died in the same timeframe. Today I want to give you more...
Sir William Temple of Temple Bar – Irish to the Core Weekly Blog 47
Last blog I discussed the brutal methods of the English during and immediately after their conquest of the Gaelic Irish at the Battle of Kinsale. Today I will discuss one of the Englishmen who came swooping in...
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