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Author : Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033713806
Danske hær, hjælpetropper; Spanske hær, hjælpetropper; Franske hær, hjælpetropper; Guerilla-krig
Author : Cyril Falls
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815604351
The reign of Elizabeth I will always be remembered for the Armada. But it was the Irish, not the Spanish, who came closest to destroying the security of the Elizabethan state. Between 1560 and 1602, only superior military force -- allied with ruthless subjugation -- preserved England's throne against a succession of rebellions and uprisings throughout Ireland. This classic work by renowned military historian Cyril Falls is the crucial account of the half century that changed the course of Anglo-Irish history. The Elizabethan wars in Ireland involved the collision of two civilizations. Falls's critical work gives a vital perspective to the broad sweep of Anglo-Irish relations.
Author : David W. McCullough
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307434739
The riveting true story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand years of struggle “A fascinating mixture of mythology and actual historical events. . . . Lovers of Irish and medieval literature will relish this book.”—Booklist For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its wars. Beginning with the legends of ancient battles and warriors, Wars of the Irish Kings moves through a time when history and storytelling were equally prized, into the age when history was as much propaganda as fact. This remarkable book tells of tribal battles, foreign invasions, Viking raids, family feuds, wars between rival Irish kingdoms, and wars of rebellion against the English. While the battles formed the legends of the land, it was the people fighting the battles—Cuchulain, Finn MacCool, Brian Boru, Robert the Bruce, Elizabeth I, and Hugh O’Donnell—who shaped the destiny and identity of the Irish nation. Brought together for the first time in one volume, Wars of the Irish Kings is a surprisingly immediate and stunning portrait of an all-but-forgotten time that forged the Ireland of today.
Author : Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917954374
Author : Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy,Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Battles
ISBN : 0862815827
Author : Seán McMahon
Publisher : Damaris Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Battles
ISBN : 1907535039
This is a clear, lively, account of all the significant battles in Irish history, from pre-history to the Normans to the Black and Tans in 1920-1921, and concluding with the Battle of Bogside in 1969.
Author : John Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852855734
The comprehensive defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the pan-European Nine Years' War, prevented the exiled James II from regaining his English throne, ended realistic prospects of a Stuart restoration and partially secured the new regime of King William III and Queen Mary created by the Glorious Revolution. The principal events - the Siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, and the two Sieges and Treaty of Limerick - have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected. Childs argues that the struggle was typical of the late-seventeenth century, principally decided by economic resources and attrition in which the 'small war' comprising patrols, raids, occupation of captured regions by small garrisons, police actions against irregulars and attacks on supply lines was more significant in determining the outcome than the set-piece battles and sieges.
Author : Padraig Lenihan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004476554
These ten thematic essays examine the three Irish wars of the seventeenth-century in relation to each other, thereby yielding important comparative insights. The military potential of England and, later, an emergent Britain, was immeasurably greater than that of Irish Catholics. John McGurk, James Scott Wheeler and Paul Kerrigan evaluate the logistical and naval strategies exploiting this advantage. Such was the disparity that an effective Irish military response to conquest and colonisation was only feasible in the favourable archipelagic and continental European circumstances explored by John Young and Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Defeat or victory ultimately depended on relative military performance in manoeuvre, battle and siege, operations evaluated by Pádraig Lenihan, Donal O’Carroll and James Burke. Bernadette Whelan examines the role of women as victim, survivor and, occasionally, combatant. ’You cannot carry fire in a sack’, Raymond Gillespie notes the impact of war, especially on urban Ireland.
Author : Richard S. Grayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029255
The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.
Author : Michael Fewer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788546638
A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war – the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts – a beautiful eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's highest legal tribunals. Inside the courts a large party of IRA men were barricaded – a clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would never be accepted by passionate republicans. After three days of fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered. But the Four Courts also housed Ireland's historical archives, and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed, with burnt paper raining down over the city. This was a cultural disaster for the new state and its historical memory. Michael Fewer has a sure command of the political and military history of those years, and a mastery of the architectural and technological aspects of the battle. His recreation of this tragic episode is an intimate, detailed and essential addition to the literature of the Irish Revolution.
Author : Declan Power
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504758888
The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years. The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in the Congo as a United Nations contingent to help keep the peace. For many it would be their first trip outside their native shores. Some of the troops were teenage boys, their army-issue hobnailed boots still unbroken. They had never heard a shot fired in anger. Others were experienced professional soldiers but were still not prepared for the action that was to take place. Led by Commandant Pat Quinlan, A Company found themselves tasked with protecting the European population at Jadotville, a small mining town in the southern Congolese province of Katanga. It fell to A Company to protect those who would later turn against them. On September 13th, 1961, the bright morning air of Jadotville was shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire. The men of A Company found their morning mass parade interrupted, and within minutes they went from holding rosaries to rifles as they entered the world of combat. This was to be no Srebrenica; though cut off and surrounded, the men of Jadotville held their ground and fought. This is their story.
Author : J J O'Connell
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343026856
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Author : Dan Harvey
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785373275
The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside all before them and were perched on the northern coastline of France. Outright victory over all of Europe was impeded only by the expanse of the English Channel. The supremely confident, yet-to-be defeated Luftwaffe (German Air Force) were eager for continued action, to claim air superiority and victory over an outnumbered RAF and clear the skies for the amphibious invasions of Britain and Ireland. It was vital that the RAF deny them, and so a ferocious and highly strategic aerial battle began that was to rage for more than three months. Among those in the RAF’s Spitfire and Hurricane fighter squadrons were Irishmen, who were in the thick of the aerial exchanges, daring ‘dog-fights’, and intrepid interceptions of German bombers. A Bloody Summer: The Irish at the Battle of Britain for the first time tells the true and full story of their heretofore underestimated involvement in this epic aerial encounter.
Author : J. J. O'connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 024371355X
Author : Battle of the Moy Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B5435057