Introduction : the confederate wars revisited / Patrick Little -- Holding on : the earl of Cork's Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641-43 / David Edwards -- The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642 / David Brown -- 'To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections' : the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643-46 / Aoife Duignan -- 'Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined' : Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644-45 / Andrew Robinson -- The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642-48 / Coleman A. Dennehy -- The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642-48 / Bríd McGrath -- The politics of preferment : the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643-47 / Patrick Little -- The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649 / Kevin Forkan -- The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics / Eamon Darcy -- Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the 'deluded and seduced' people of Ireland / John Morrill. |