In refernce to the request from Marg McIntyre for the names of some sources
on the Irish portion of the War of the Three Kingdoms (to be totally
politically correct), I can suggest a few titles which might be of interest.
Of course there are a number of valuable articles in _Irish Historical
Studies_, as well as in _Irish Sword_. As for monographs, for a good recent
account of the political background I can suggest M. Perceval-Maxwell's _The
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641_, 1994. J. Casway's _Owen Roe
O'Neill and the Struggle for Catholic Ireland_, 1984, is an excellent study
of one of the main commanders in the Rebellion, and since Scottish interests
were so involved in Ireland, much valuable material may also be found in two
works by D. Stevenson, _Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the
Seventeenth Century_, 1980, and _Scottish Covenanters and Irish
Confederates_, 1981. J. P. Kenyon's book on the English Civil War also
included some coverage of the affairs in Ireland and Scotland. As well there
is, of course, the relevant volume of the _New History of Ireland_.
Your problem is that, unlike the English Civil War, or to a lesser degree,
the Scottish Wars, relatively few studies of monograph length have been
written concerning the actual conflict in Ireland, although there have been a
number of good studies on the Cromwellian settlement, the Old English
families, and the Plantations. It presents a notable gap in the
historiography of Ireland.
Daniel German
National Archives of Canada