The Twilight Lords: Elizabeth I and the First Irish HolocaustA gripping chronicle of the ferocious twenty-year struggle between the English monarch and the feudal lords of Ireland, The Twilight Lords describes the first authentic colonial venture in English history, a venture that held captive a whole generation of the best that Ireland and England could muster. By the time the last and the greatest of the "rebels" surrendered, Elizabeth was dead, two waves of English settlers had been exterminated, and the southern part of Ireland had become a barren wilderness. |
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Page xiii
... Hugh O'Neill , Earl of Ty- rone . Caught between them and the invading English , the common people , the pawns at risk , were sacrificed by both sides without compunction . The tragedy of Elizabeth's Ireland took place a long time ago ...
... Hugh O'Neill , Earl of Ty- rone . Caught between them and the invading English , the common people , the pawns at risk , were sacrificed by both sides without compunction . The tragedy of Elizabeth's Ireland took place a long time ago ...
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... Hugh O'Neill related here illustrates the contagiousness of a narrow nationalism . Beyond these remarks , The Twilight Lords ven- tures no conclusions ; my hope is that the story will suffice . A few words are necessary on the method ...
... Hugh O'Neill related here illustrates the contagiousness of a narrow nationalism . Beyond these remarks , The Twilight Lords ven- tures no conclusions ; my hope is that the story will suffice . A few words are necessary on the method ...
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... Hugh Singleton by Francis Chamberlain , and on August 18 , the day of Alençon's arrival , William Page of London “ mali- ciously , contemptuously , and seditiously imprinted and caused to be im- printed a thousand of the aforesaid false ...
... Hugh Singleton by Francis Chamberlain , and on August 18 , the day of Alençon's arrival , William Page of London “ mali- ciously , contemptuously , and seditiously imprinted and caused to be im- printed a thousand of the aforesaid false ...
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Contents
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Youghal 1579 Resolution | 97 |
Kilmore 1550 Pursuit | 125 |
Smerwick 1580 Siege | 150 |
Slieve Mish 1583 Ruin | 177 |
Kilcolman 1588 The Broken Land | 207 |
Dungannon 1594 Lord of the North | 237 |
Whitehall 1599 The Passing | 262 |
Afterword 2002 Spenser at Kilcolman | 295 |
Genealogies | 319 |
Select Chapter Bibliographies | 325 |
Index | 331 |
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