History Journal

If the Flight of the Earls marked the end of Gaelic power in Ulster, the actual plantation by English and Scottish settler: Though the two earls of Tyrone and Tirconnell had committed no treasonable or unlawful act, yet [ ... ]

Although not strictly part of the Nine Years Wars, the Flight of the Earls forms a neat end point for the conflict and sets up a new period in Irish History. The Earls had been fairy treated in many ways by the new King, [ ... ]

Sir John Perrott was lord deputy from 1584 to 1588. He treated the Irish with some consideration, much against the wishes of his Dublin council, many of whom were his bitter enemies. Yet his action was not always straigh [ ... ]