Owen Roe O'Neill returns to Ireland to fight for God, Fatherland, and King.

Well, maybe not that last one...

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

• Jane Ohlmeyer, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Ireland, 1641: Contexts and Reactions
• John Cunningham, ‘Politics, 1641-1660’, Cambridge History of Ireland
• David Edwards, ‘Political Change and Social Transformation, 1603-1641’, Cambridge History of Ireland
• John Jeremiah Cronin and Padraig Lenihan, ‘Wars of Religion, 1641-1691’, Cambridge History of Ireland
• Joseph Cope, ‘The Irish Rising’, in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
• Micheál Ó Siochrú, Atrocity, Codes of Conduct and the Irish in the British Civil Wars 1641-1653
• Micheál Ó Siochrú, The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643-1649
• Micheál Ó Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
• Demetri D. Debe, The fifth earl of Clanricarde and the founding of the Confederate Catholic government, 1641-3, Irish Historical Studies
• Philip McClory, Assessing the religious, political and personal motivations of Owen Roe O'Neill in returning to and campaigning in Ireland, 1642-49

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