Scottish Covenanters & Irish Confederates
Description
The New Scots, the men of the army the Scottish covenanters sent to Ireland, were the most formidable opponents of the Irish confederates for several crucial years in the 1640s, preventing them conquering all Ireland and destroying the Protestant plantation in Ulster. The greatest challenge to the power of the covenanters in Scotland at a time when they seemed invincible came from a largely Irish army, sent to Scotland by the confederates and commanded by the royalist marquis of Montrose.
Thus the relations of Scotland and Ireland are clearly of great importance in understanding the complex 'War of the Three Kingdoms' and the interactions of the civil wars and revolutions of England, Scotland and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. But though historians have studied Anglo-Scottish and Anglo-Irish relations extensively, Scottish-Irish relations have been largely neglected. Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates attempts to fill this gap, and in doing so provides the first comprehensive study of the Scottish Army in Ireland.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Conventions and Abbreviations
- Scotland and Ireland in the Early Seventeenth Century
I. The ulster Scots
II. The First Bishops' War, 1639
III. The Second Bishops' War, 1640 - The Irish Rebellion and Scottish Intervention, 1641-1642
I. Reactions in Scotland and Treaty
II. The Recruiting and Organising of the Army
III. The Attitude of the Irish Rebels to the Scots - The New Scots in Ireland, 1642-1644
I. The Campaign of 1642
II. The Campaign of 1643
III. Financial and Political Problems, 1642-1644 - The Irish in Scotland, 1644-1647
- The New Scots in Ireland, 1644-1646
I. The Campaign of 1644
II. Financial and Political Problems, 1644-1646
III. The Campaigns of 1645 and 1646: Benburb - The End of the New Scots
I. The Decline of the Army, 1646-1647
II. The Engagement, 1647-1648
III. The Aftermath, 1648-1650
IV. Scotland and Ireland in the 1650s - The Relations of Scotland and Ireland
Appendices
- Summary of the Treaty for sending a Scottish Army to Ireland, 1642
- The Establishment and Pay of the Scottish Army in Ireland, 1642
- The Muster Rolls of the Scottish Army in Ireland, 1642
Bibliography
List of Maps
- Ireland and Scotland
- Ulster
- Places of muster of the Scottish Army in Ireland, 1642
- Quarters of Forces in Ulster, 1645
List of Illustrations
- Bonamargy Friary
- Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven
- John Campbell, earl of Loudoun
- Sir James Turner
- The Scotch Military Discipline
- Sir Phelim O'Neill
- Dunluce Castle
- James Butler, duke of Ormond
- Archibald Campbell, marquis of Argyll
- Sir Alexander Hamilton
- John Lindsay, earl of Crawford-Lindsay
- Carrickfergus Castle
- Owen Roe O'Neill
- George Monck, duke of Albemarle
- Charlemont Fort
- Ballygalley Castle