JENNINGS, Brendan. Ed. by. Wild Geese in Spanish Flanders 1582-1700 (K.W. Nicholls copy)

Documents relating chiefly to Irish Regiments, from the Archives Generales Du Royaume, Brussels, and other sources. Dublin: S.O. 1964. Royal octavo. pp. ix, 705. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Neat ownership signature of K.W. Nicholls (historian of medieval Irish genealogy) to front endpaper, an appealing association. A very good copy in rare dust jacket. Rare.

A monumental and scholarly work, this indispensable reference gathers and transcribes a vast array of archival documents concerning the Irish “Wild Geese.” With material of political and military interest dealing with the many thousands of Irishmen who served in Irish regiments with the Spanish armies in the Low Countries from the year 1587 (when an Irish contingent under Captain Stanley went over from the English army to the Spaniards), down to the end of the seventeenth century. This massive work provides an important insight into the military careers on the Continent of such noted Irishmen as; Colonels Richard Bourke of Turlough, Henry O'Neill, Hugh O'Neill, Hugh O'Donnell, Owen Roe O'Neill, Patrick Preston, and many more besides. One section relates to the regiments which served there under James II. One of the cornerstones of Irish military and exile studies, and among the most substantial productions of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Rare in such well-preserved condition, with the very good jacket intact.

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