Ireland

Irish Irenics

Andrew Boyd on past efforts to bring Ireland's warring factions to the peace table.

Rinuccini and Civil War in Ireland, 1644-49

Andrew Boyd tells the story of the ill-fated mission of a papal nuncio whose blundering zeal doomed the hopes of Irish Catholics of profiting from the civil war between Charles I and his Parliament in England.

Ireland and 'King Billy': Usage and Abusage

Rex Cathcart examines how William's brief intervention in Ireland has provided a rallying-point in ideology and iconography for Protestants to the present day.

Images of Ireland, 1170-1600: The Origins of English Imperialism

'Beyond the pale' - the imperialists' vision of the Irish as ignoble savages originated in the attitudes and writings of medieval Englishmen.

The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland

Four viewpoints - one from its editor, three from reviewers - on the making of a major new historical encyclopedia.

Give a Dog a Bad Name: Roger Casement & F.E. Smith

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

Ireland Under the Union

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

The First Highland Charge

During the Highland rebellions from the mid-seventeenth century, explains David Stevenson, the fighting highlanders developed a remarkable military tactic which terrified their enemies.

Redmond O'Hanlon and the Outlaws of Ulster

In the first half of the seventeenth century, Ireland in effect changed hands, and Redmond O'Hanlon was one of the many dispossessed who made parts of Ireland ungovernable by the outlaw's war he waged.