Siege in Ireland, 1641-53

The Irish Jacobite army

Harman Murtagh & Diarmuid Murtagh

The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although largely a new force, for three ye…

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

James O'Neill

The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English…

The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–2022

Eoin Kinsella

Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in ta…

The world of the galloglass

Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600

Seán Duffy, editor

The intersection of Scottish and Irish politics and culture in the late Middle Ages is encapsulated in the figure of the galloglass. These West Highland and Heb…

People, Prehistory and the Past

Essays in honour of John Waddell

Michelle Comber and Kieran O’Conor

Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and …