Title: Wars of the Irish kings :
Authors: McCullough, David W.
Date: 2000
Publisher: Crown Publishers,
Physical description: xxxi, 348 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Introduction: Nothing but Trouble -- Mythical Wars and Warriors. The Second Battle of Moytura. The Cattle Raid of Cooley: Cuchulain. The Palace of the Quicken Trees: Finn MacCool. The Frenzy of Sweeney -- Kings and Battles. Brief Sketches of Three Irish Kings / Geoffrey Keating. The Annals of the Four Masters: Ninth- and Tenth-Century Entries -- The Vikings. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill: The Early Viking Raids. The Freeing of Cellachain, King of Munster -- Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf. Njal's Saga: A Viking Account. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill: An Irish Account -- The Norman Invasion. The Normans Arrive, 1169 / Gerald of Wales. The Song of Dermot and the Earl: Another Version of the Invasion. Henry II Comes to Ireland / Gerald of Wales -- John De Courcy and the Conquest of Ulster. The Book of Howth: The Northern Conquest Begins, 1177 -- The Scots. Edward Bruce Invades Ireland / John Barbour. Ireland During the Bruce Invasion From Holinshed's Chronicles of Ireland -- Warfare in the Kingdom of Thomond. The Triumphs of Thurlough: The Battle of Dysert O'Dea / John mac Rory MacGrath -- The Battle of Axe Hill. The Book of Howth: Battle of Knockdoe -- Hugh O'Neill Triumphant. The Annals of the Four Masters: The Battles of Clontibret and Yellow Ford. O'Neill's Victories / Philip O'Sullivan Beare. The Papers of Sir John Harington: Essex and Elizabeth -- The Battle of Kinsale. The Annals of the Four Masters: O'Donnell and O'Neill Head South to Kinsale. An Englishman's Siege and Battle Diary / Fynes Moryson. The Annals of the Four Masters: The Battle of Kinsale, An Irish View. Afterword: The Flight of the Earls -- Glossary of Common Irish Words Used in Place-Names.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ireland--History--To 1603.