A Military History of IrelandThomas Bartlett, Keith Jeffery This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps. |
Contents
An Irish military tradition? | 1 |
Irish warfare before 1100 | 26 |
Irish and AngloNorman warfare in twelfthcentury Ireland | 52 |
The defence of the English lordship 12501450 | 76 |
Gaelic warfare in the Middle Ages | 99 |
The Tudors and the origins of the modern Irish states a standing army | 116 |
The captains games army and society in Elizabethan Ireland | 136 |
The wars of religion 16031660 | 160 |
Irish soldiers abroad 16001800 | 294 |
Nonprofessional soldiery c 16001800 | 315 |
Army organisation and society in the nineteenth century | 335 |
The army and law and order in the nineteenth century | 358 |
Militarism in Ireland 19001922 | 379 |
The army in independent Ireland | 407 |
The British army and Ireland since 1922 | 431 |
Notes | 459 |
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