Lectures by several historians, edited by O’Brien, trace Ireland from the plantation of Ulster through the bargaining over the Graces, Strafford’s rule and the eve of the 1641 rising, to the rebellion and the Confederation. Their sympathy for dispossessed Irish landholders, such as Sir Donnell O’Cahan imprisoned untried for nineteen years, is open.
A nationalist-leaning study of a decisive half-century, still useful for its documents. Download the free EPUB.