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Snapshots in time

By Shane Hegarty

1. Main reference: John McCavitt, The Flight of the Earls (Dublin, 2002).
2. Primary sources: George Carew, Pacata Hibernia (1633; copy in National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin); Sir John Davies, A Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued [ 1612] (facsimile reproduction, Shannon, 1969); R.D. Edwards (ed.), Chichester Letter-Book, in Analecta Hibernica, viii (1938), pp. 3-177; Franciscan Manuscripts: Report on the Franciscan Manuscripts Preserved in the Convent, Merchants' Quay, Dublin (Historical Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1906); Graham Kew (ed.), The Irish sections of Fynes Moryson's Unpublished Itinerary, in Analecta Hibernica, xxxvii (1998), pp. 3-137; Hiram Morgan, Tyrone's rebellion: the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, April 1993), no. 67 in The Royal Historical Society Studies in History series ; Hiram Morgan. The Battle of Kinsale (Bray: Wordwell Books, March 2004).
3. Secondary sources: Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors (3 vols, reprinted London, 1963) vol iii; Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Stuarts (3 vols, London, 1909-1916) vol i; Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ulster (Belfast, 1992); Brian Bonner, That Audacious Traitor (Dublin, 1975); N.P. Canny, Reformation to Restoration: Ireland 1534-1660 (Dublin, 1987); Aidan Clarke, Pacification, plantation and the Catholic question, 1603-23 in T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland, vol iii, Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 (2nd edition, Oxford, 1989), pp. 187-232; Patricia Dillon, Earl or Chieftain? The Romance of Hugh O'Neill (Dublin, 1910); Cyril Falls, The Birth of Ulster (London, 1936); Cyril Falls, Elizabeth's Irish Wars (London, 1950); Brendan Fitzpatrick, Seventeenth-Century Ireland: the Wars of Religion (Dublin, 1988); Raymond Gillespie, Conspiracy: Ulster Plots and Plotters in 1615 (Belfast, 1987); G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Irish Battles (London, 1969); Gráinne Henry, The Irish Military Community in Spanish Flanders 1586-1621 (Dublin, 1992); Charles Hughes (ed.), Shakespeare's Europe (London, 1903); F.M. Jones, Mountjoy 1563-1606: the Last Elizabethan Deputy (Dublin, 1958); Micheline Kerney Walsh, Destruction by Peace: Hugh O'Neill after Kinsale (Monaghan, 1986); Micheline Kerney Walsh, An Exile of Ireland: Hugh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster (Dublin, 1996); Deborah Lisson, Red Hugh (Dublin, 2001); Margaret MacCurtain, The Flight of the Earls in Liam de Paor (ed.), Milestones in Irish History (Dublin, 1986), pp 52-61; John McCavitt, Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1605-16 (Belfast, 1998); Darren McGettigan, Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War (Dublin, 2005); Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, The Life of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill, ed. Paul Walsh (2 parts, Dublin 1948-57); Sean O'Faolain, The Great O'Neill (reprinted, Dublin 1981); Hans Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: a Study in Legal Imperialism (Cambridge, 1985); Philip Robinson, The Plantation of Ulster: British Settlement in an Irish Landscape, 1600-70 (Dublin, 1984); Murray Smith, Flight of the Earls? Changing views on O'Neill's departure from Ireland in History Ireland, iv, no. 1 (1996), pp 17-20; Micheline Walsh, Some notes towards a history of the womenfolk of the Wild Geese in Irish Sword, v, (1961-2), pp 98-106; Hiram Morgan, 'Hugh O'Neill and the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland', Historical Journal, March, 1993; Hiram Morgan, 'Tom Lee: the posing peacemaker' in Representing Ireland , ed. B. Bradshaw, A. Hadfield & W. Maley (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Hiram Morgan, 'Faith and fatherland or Queen and Country? An unpublished exchange between O'Neill and the State at the height of the Nine Years War', Dúiche Néill: Journal of the O¹Neill country historical society, 1994; Hiram Morgan, 'Faith and fatherland in sixteenth-century Ireland', History Ireland, Summer 1995; Lawes of Irelande: a tract by Sir John Davies, Irish Jurist, 1995-6 ; Hiram Morgan, 'The 1597 ceasefire documents', Dúiche Néill: Journal of the O¹Neill country historical society, 1997. Hiram Morgan, 'The real Red Hugh', Beatha Aodh Ruadh:The life of Red Hugh O'Donnell historical and literary contexts ed. Pádraig Ó Riain (Irish Texts Society, subsidiary series, no.12, London, 2002), 1-35; Hiram Morgan,'Never any realm worse governed': Queen Elizabeth and Ireland, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Winter, 2004.
4. Exhibitions and conferences: Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at home and abroad since 1550, at National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin; Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, Louvain, Belgium - Summer school The Irish in Europe: 400 years May 21-25 www.louvain400.eu; Patrons and Preachers: Irish Franciscan treasures, 1600-1750, at National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin, from October, 2007; Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600-1800, at National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin, from October, 2007; The writing of Irish history: the Four Masters and their world, at Long Room, Trinity College Dublin, from October, 2007; Luke Wadding and the Franciscans in Waterford, at Waterford Treasures Museum, The Granary, Waterford, November, 2007.
5. Music and Drama: Brian Friel, Making History (London, 1989); Ouroboros theatre company performs touring version in historic settings during the year, Charles Fort in Kinsale, Co Cork, Cistercian abbey in Kilmallock, Co Limerick; Rock of Cashel, Co Tipperary; Mellifont Abbey, Co Louth; Rathmullan. Co Donegal, and Dungannon, Co Tyrone.The Flight of the Earls in Story and Song, narrated by John McCavitt, music and lyrics by Maura Erskine, Miles Jones and John McCavitt; The Flight of the Earls, musical by Mary Ronayne-Keane; Flow of my Tears, CD by Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama and Ó Cléirigh Institute, University College Dublin;
6. Visual and Walks: Flight of the Earls commemorative stamps, An Post, GPO, Dublin 1, www.irishstamps.ie; Woodcuts in Sir John Derricke, Image of Ireland with a Discourse on Woodkerne (London, 1581); BBC Northern Ireland television series, Flight of the Earls (www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ flightoftheearls); Donegal to Rathmullan commemorative march, September 14th-16th (www.walkingireland.ie); The Beara Walk and the Ballyhoura Way, parts of the O'Sullivan Beare march (www.heritagecouncil.ie/walkways; www.bbgreenways.org)
7. Websites:
• www.flightoftheearls.ie (Lists a number of commemorative events.)
• www.donegalcoco.ie
• www.odonnellclan.com
• www.oneillsummerschool.com
• - BRIAN MAYE