The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

by Eamon Darcy

Book Overview

A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality.

After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a widespread massacre of Protestant settlers was taking place. Desperate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933362
• ISBN13: 9780861933365
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"