Ireland

The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland

Four viewpoints - one from its editor, three from reviewers - on the making of a major new historical encyclopedia.

Give a Dog a Bad Name: Roger Casement & F.E. Smith

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

Ireland Under the Union

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

The First Highland Charge

During the Highland rebellions from the mid-seventeenth century, explains David Stevenson, the fighting highlanders developed a remarkable military tactic which terrified their enemies.

Redmond O'Hanlon and the Outlaws of Ulster

In the first half of the seventeenth century, Ireland in effect changed hands, and Redmond O'Hanlon was one of the many dispossessed who made parts of Ireland ungovernable by the outlaw's war he waged.