The world of the galloglass
Subtitle: kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200-1600
By: Seán Duffy, editor.
Contributors: Duffy, Seán, 1962-; University of Edinburgh.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781851829460
Subjects: Galloglasses -- History -- Congresses.; Mercenary troops -- Ireland -- History -- To 1603.; Mercenary troops -- Scotland -- History -- To 1603.; Ireland -- History, Military -- Congresses.; Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Scotland -- History -- Congresses.; Scotland -- Foreign relations -- Ireland -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "The papers in this volume arise from a conference held in the University of Edinburgh in March 2003" - P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The prehistory of the Galloglass / Seán Duffy; value: Moray, Ulster and MacWilliams / Alasdair Ross; value: Dealing death from Man : Manx sea power in and around the Irish Sea, 1079-1265 / R. Andrew McDonald; value: A dead man at Ballyshannon / Alex Woolf; value: Scottish mercenary kindreds in Ireland, 1250-1600 / Kenneth Nicholls; value: Images of the galloglass in poems to the MacSweeneys / Katherine Simms; value: James V, king of Scotland - and Ireland? / Alison Cathcart; value: Having the right kit : West Highlanders fighting in Ireland / David H. Caldwell; value: Images of Scottish warriors in later Irish bardic poetry / Wilson McLeod; value: Securing the Jacobean succession: the secret career of James Fullerton of Trinity College Dublin / David Edwards.