03.03 - The Battle of Rathmines

The newly-forged coalition of Irish Royalists, built from every faction of the Irish war, braces for the English invasion. By the summer of 1649, the island of Ireland is under their control, with the exceptions of Derry and Dublin. Major General Michael Jones defends the capital as the Marquis of Ormond moves to take it.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland

David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland

Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652

John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland

Patrick Little, Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland, 2004

Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51

Micheál Ó Siochrú, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000

Micheál Ó Siochrú, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999

Micheál Ó Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

Pádraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49, 2001

Wheeler, James Scott, 'Ormond and Cromwell: The Struggle for Ireland', in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives

Martyn Bennett, ‘God’s Wall of Brass: Cromwell’s Generals in Ireland, 1649-1650’ in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives

Derek Hirst, ‘Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649-1658’, in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

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