03.03 - The Battle of Rathmines

The newly-forged coalition of Irish Royalists, built from every
faction of the Irish war, braces for the English invasion. By the
summer of 1649, the island of Ireland is under their control, with
the exceptions of Derry and Dublin. Major General Michael Jones
defends the capital as the Marquis of Ormond moves to take it.
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this episode, I found the following publications particularly
useful: John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History
of Ireland David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social
Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland Ian
Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms,
1638-1652 John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of
Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland Patrick Little,
Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland,
2004 Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise
History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51 Micheál Ó
Siochrú, (ed.) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, 2000
Micheál Ó Siochrú, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649, 1999 Micheál Ó
Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of
Ireland Pádraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49,
2001 Wheeler, James Scott, 'Ormond and Cromwell: The Struggle for
Ireland', in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock
(eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives Martyn Bennett,
‘God’s Wall of Brass: Cromwell’s Generals in Ireland, 1649-1650’ in
Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds),
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives Derek Hirst, ‘Security and
Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649-1658’, in Michael J.
Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution Learn more
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