| 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 fût go hoíche' : Hugh O'Neill's murders / Hiram Morgan -- Pacification of Ulster, 1600-3 / John McGurk -- '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 -- Laws of war in seventeenth-century Europe and their application during the Jacobite War in Ireland, 1688-91 / John Childs. |
