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Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War

Darren McGettigan

出版	Four Courts Press, 2005
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Wars & Conflicts / General
ISBN	18518288779781851828876
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HodnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Nine Years War was the greatest challenge that Gaelic Ireland presented to the Elizabethan English state. The role played by the young chieftain, Red Hugh O'Donnell (1572-1602), in the Gaelic confederacy which fought this war, was crucial. Without him, the possibility of such successful and wide-ranging resistance to the expansion of English power in Ireland would not have possible. This book represents a major reappraisal of O'Donnell's role. It is a study of how the abuse of power by English captains and officials led to the growth of anti-English sentiment in the lordship of Tír Chonaill and in O'Donnell's thinking itself, due in large part to his imprisonment in Dublin Castle. It is also a study in how the Gaelic lordships of Ulster proved themselves to be capable of military and political innovation, to enable their leaders to fashion a formidable confederacy which came very close to ending English sovereignty over Ireland.