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Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603)
by
Professor Gerard A. Hayes McCoy
Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603) represents a most valuable contribution to our understanding of early modern Irish history. The late Professor Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy has penned an important account of Galloglaigh families like the MacSweeneys and MacDonnells in the critical years leading up to the Nine Years War. While scholarship published since this book first appeared nearly sixty years ago has deepened our knowledge of the period, Scots Mercenary Forces remains the essential starting point for the study of the role of those Gaelic military families who exerted such a pronounced influence upon the politics of both Ireland and the Kingdom of the Isles and Western Scotland during the late sixteenth century.
"Eamonn de Burca's reprint will be welcomed by professional and amateur historians alike, as well as by those interested in Gaelic family history" - review by Thomas Gildea Cannon.
Bound in buckram with coloured illustrated dust jacket. €45.
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