by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jun 15, 2022 | Irish to the Core
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...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jun 8, 2022 | Irish to the Core
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...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | Jun 3, 2022 | Irish to the Core
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...
by Stephen Finlay Archer | May 26, 2022 | Irish to the Core
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...
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...
