The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis, John McGurk. (Manchester University Press, £45) ISBN 0719049598

John McGurk’s Herculean study of the raising, supplying and impact of the Elizabethan army of the 1590s on England and Ireland is the result of years of painstaking research and is unlikely to be replaced as the standard work for quite some time to come. Aside from Bartlett and Jefferey’s recent Military History of Ireland ... Read more

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