Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649 write by Mícheál Ó Siochrú. This book was released on 1999. Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines political and constitutional developments in confederate Ireland from the formation of embryonic governmental institutions in 1642 until the signing of the 'Second Ormond Peace' in 1649. This book challenges certain misconceptions common to most previously published research on the nature and operation of the confederate association. These misconceptions originate in a failure to accurately classify the different social and cultural groups who formed that alliance, leading to a misunderstanding of the relationship between the confederates and, more importantly, of what originally united, and ultimately divided them.
Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49
Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 write by Pádraig Lenihan. This book was released on 2001. Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book evaluates the Confederate Catholic war effort from the preceeding phase of localized insurgency, through the formation of a national self-government in 1642, until the Confederate Catholic regime was finally subsumed in a broad pan-Royalist alliance in 1649. While this alliance held out the prospect of significant religious and constitutional concessons this achievement was nullified by the subsequent Cromwellian catastrophe: the Confederate regime failed. In attributing this failure to political factionalism, historians have neglected the potential and limitations of the Confederate war effort. This study does not substitute crude military determinism but acknowledges that political indecision and strategic incoherence inhibited the war effort at critical junctures. From the conflicting political priorities of Confederates two partially exclusive military strategies, insular, and expeditionary, can be identified. Both strategies were proactive and so demanded standing armies rather than local militia units. This book emphasizes the crucial importance of the tax gathering apparatus in fueling the incremental growth of standing armies. In the absence of large scale foreign patronage, exacting money from an agrarian economy, rather than the shortages of material, or still less, manpower representing the crucial extrinsic limit to Confederate military potential. Given these limits, it was a considerable achievement to contain two British interventions (in 1642 and 1646/7 respectively). The influence of the contemporaneous "military revolution" on the European mainland was mediated by the cadre of returned mercenary officers. Consequently, the Confederates developed a qualitative edge in fortification and siegecraft. The application of the continental model and the shift from putatively "celtic" or irregular tactics of raiding and running battles would be more problematic. This and other explanations for the poor battlefield performance of the Confederate armies are discussed.
Confederate Ireland 1642-1649
Confederate Ireland 1642-1649 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederate Ireland 1642-1649 write by Micheál Ó Siochrú. This book was released on 1997. Confederate Ireland 1642-1649 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ireland 1649–52
Ireland 1649–52 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland 1649–52 write by Michael McNally. This book was released on 2009-08-18. Ireland 1649–52 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Osprey's study of Oliver Cromwell's campaigns during the end of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649, the English Parliament saw their opportunity to launch an assault on the Royalist enclave in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was appointed as Deputy of Ireland to lead a campaign to restore direct control and quell the Confederate opposition. The first battle in Cromwell's bloody offensive was at Drogheda, where an assault on the city walls resulted in the slaughter of almost 4000 defenders and inhabitants. The Parliamentary troops then proceeded to Wexford where battle once again lead to a massacre. After Cromwell returned to England, his son-in-law, Henry Ireton, continued the operation which ended with the surrender of Galway in 1652 and led to the Act for the Settlement of Ireland, in which Irish Royalists and Confederates were evicted and their lands 'settled' by those who had advanced funds to Parliament.
Ireland in Crisis
Ireland in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland in Crisis write by Patrick Little. This book was released on 2020. Ireland in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.
