03.07 - The Death of Royalist Ireland

Ormond's coalition collapses, as Henry Ireton takes over from Cromwell.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

• John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
• Elaine Murphy, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Jason Peacey, John Morril, eds. The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Crmwell: Volume II, 2022.
• Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
• 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
• Pádraig Lenihan, 'Siege Massacres in Ireland: Drogheda in Context', in Martyn Bennett, Raymond Gillespie, and Scott Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives
• 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

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