Age of atrocity
Subtitle: violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland
By: David Edwards, Pádraig Lenihan & Clodagh Tait, editors.
Contributors: Edwards, David, 1963-; Lenihan, Pádraig, 1959-; Tait, Clodagh, 1974-
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781851829620
Subjects: Political violence -- Ireland -- History.; British -- Ireland -- History -- 16th century.; British -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century.; Violence -- Ireland -- History.; Ireland -- History -- 16th century.; Ireland -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Early modern Ireland : a history of violence / Clodagh Tait, David Edwards & Pádraig Lenihan; Escalation of violence in sixteenth-century Ireland / David Edwards; Atrocity and history : Grey, Spenser and the slaughter at Smerwick (1580) / Vincent P. Carey; 'Slán Dé fút go hoíche : Hugh O'Neill's murders / Hiram Morgan; Pacification of Ulster, 1600-3 / John McGurk; 'The just vengeance of God' : reporting the violent deaths of persecutors in early modern Ireland / Clodagh Tait; Religious violence against settlers in south Ulster, 1641-2 / Brian Mac Cuarta; Other massacre : English killings of Irish, 1641-3 / Kenneth Nicholls; Archaeology of massacre: the Carrickmines mass grave and the siege of March 1642 / Mark Clinton, Linda Fibiger & Damian Shiels; Inventing an Irish Protestant icon : the strange death of Sir Charles Coote, 1642 / Kevin Forkan; 'Escaping massacre' : refugees in Scotland in the aftermath of the 1641 Ulster Rebellion / John R. Young; Drogheda massacre in Cromwellian context / John Morrill; Propaganda, rumour and myth : Oliver Cromwell and the massacre at Drogheda / Micheál Ó Siochrú; The laws of war in seventeenth-century Europe and their application during the Jacobite War in Ireland, 1688-91 / John Childs.