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Searc's Web Guide to 16th Century Ireland
Chronology
1507 Accession of Henry VII to the English throne.
1534-40 The 'Geraldine' Insurrection (made up of the families who support the Fitzgeralds, of Leinster) is lead by Lord Offaly.
1541 Henry VIII proclaimed King of Ireland.
1558-1603 During the Reign of Elizabeth I the Plantation of Ireland begins resulting in wars against the Planters, especially in Ulster. Elizabethan wars in Ireland. System of Counties adopted along traditional land divisions.
1588 Spanish Armada wrecked off the Irish Coast.
1595-1603 Hugh O'Neill wages the Nine Year War against the English in Ulster. 1598 O'Neill defeats the English at the Battle of the Yellow Ford in County Monaghan.
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People and Texts
Maghnus O'Donnell (1500?-1563)
Henry Fitzsimon (1566-1643)
Grace O' Malley - Pirate Queen (1530-1603)
Plantation Ireland: settlement and material culture, c.1550-c.1700 Conference
The Geraldine Rebellion (1565-1583) from A Concise History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce (1916)
Catastrophic Dimensions: The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615 by D. W. Cunnane
A View of the Present State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser (1596)
The Poetic Brehon Lawyers Of Early Sixteenth Century Ireland by Katharine Simms
Ceart Uí Neill / The Rights of O'Neill
Translation from Old Irish of the Ceart Uí Neill / the Rights of the O'Neills under Brehon Law.
16th & 17th C. Irish Mercantile Networks In Spain
Celtic Dress of the 16th Century
Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent site, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English).