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The Dead, Sick and Wounded of the Nine Years War (1594-1603)

The Dead, Sick and Wounded of the Nine Years War (1594-1603)



Readers of military history find that arms, strategy, logistics and tactics necessarily tend to predominate while the casualties—the dead, sick and wounded—are comparatively neglected. In the late Elizabethan war in Ireland how did the common soldiery fare?
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Bringing it all back home
Bringing it all back home

John Molony, at present Research Professor at the Australian Catholic University, was the Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin from 1990 to 1993. He returned to Dublin for a brief visit recently to launch his latest book, a biography of Thomas Davis, A Soul came into Ireland (Geography Publications). Brendan Smith took the opportunity of speaking to him.

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