• FULL CATALOGUE!
• SCOTLAND
  • Ancient Scotland
  • The Stewart Dynasty
  • Monarchs of Scotland
  • So Strange a Monster as a Jesuiste
  • Painters of Scotland
• HISTORY
  • ARGYLL - The Enduring Heartland
  • A Summer in Lochaber
  • Montrose: Cavalier in Mourning
  • The Lords of the Isles - The Clan Donald and the Early Kingdom of the Scots
  • The Heather and the Gale - Clan Donald and Clan Campbell during the Wars of Montrose
  • Sons of the Wolf. Campbells and MacGregors and the Cleansing of the Inland Glens
  • Morvern Transformed
  • Tarbert Past and Present
  • The Book of Islay
  • Dalmally and the Glens
• FICTION
  • The Blood is Strong
  • For Promised Joy
  • Son of the Glen
  • Doctor in the Glen
  • Dog Collar Diary
  • Vet in the Vestry with Poultry in the Pulpit
  • Selected Highland Folk Tales
  • Tales of Whisky and Smuggling
  • Mystical Scotland
• ROADS & RAILWAYS
  • British Airships in Pictures - An Illustrated History 1784 - 1998
  • The Highland Railway
  • The Great North of Scotland Railway
  • The Callander & Oban Railway
  • The Skye Railway
  • The West Highland Railway
  • Victorian Travel on the West Highland line
  • The Military Roads in Scotland
  • New Ways Through the Glens
  • Country Houses of Scotland
  • In Quest of Livingstone
  • The West Highland Series of Guides
• MARITIME
  • Light in the Glens
  • One Man's River. The Clyde in Pictures 1920-1980
  • The Clyde Puffer
  • Harpoon at a Venture
  • Fish and Fisherfolk of Kintyre, Lochfyneside, Gigha and Arran
  • Herring Fishermen of Kintyre and Ayrshire
  • The North Herring Fishing Ring-net Fishermen in the Minches
• GENEALOGY
  • The Clan O'Byrne of Leinster AD 400 - 1700; A Compilation of Available Historical Information
  • A Very Fine Class of Immigrants Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers 1770 - 1850
  • The Lithuanians in Scotland
  • Clan MacFarlane, A History
  • THE BYRNES AND THE O'BYRNES
• ISLANDS
  • St. Kilda - A voyage to the Edge of the World
  • Island of Kerrera - Mirror of History
  • Jura: Language and Landscape
  • COLONSAY - Elements of an Island
  • COLONSAY - One of the Hebrides
  • Birds of Colonsay & Oransay
  • The Flowering Plants of Colonsay & Oransay
  • Lonely Colonsay : Island at the Edge
  • Colkitto! - A Celebration of Clan Donald of Colonsay (1570-1647)
  • The Crofter and the Laird
  • Moch is Anmoch
  • Summer in the Hebrides
  • Colonsay's Fallen
  • The Book of Islay
  • The Baptist Church in Colonsay 1812 - 2012
• LITERARY
  • Lobsters on the Agenda
  • Early in Orcadia
  • The Dark Twin
  • The Other Landscape
  • Off in a Boat
  • The Lost Pibroch and other Shieling Stories
  • Jaunty Jock and Other Stories
  • The Daft Days
  • Children of Tempest
  • Exploring New Roads
  • The Crofter and the Laird
  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe
  • The Founding Fish
• CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • The Finding
  • The Stone Men
  • Think Me Back
• BIOGRAPHY
  • Alexander III, King of Scots
  • Montrose: Cavalier in Mourning
  • Neil Munro: The Biography
  • Small Talk with All Change Here
  • Fearchair a' Ghunna
  • Finlay MacQueen of St. Kilda
  • Anna Buchan and O.Douglas
  • Jack B. Yeats: A Vision of Ireland
  • Dr. Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish
• LINKS

 

 

THE BYRNES AND THE O'BYRNES Vol. I:

A NEW INSIGHT UPON IRISH HISTORY

by

Daniel Byrne-Rothwell

Extent: 226pp 314gm 138 x 218mm ISBN: 978-1-904817-03-1 Price: £15.00 plus postage

This volume looks at the mythological origins and rise of the clan O'Byrne, and re-assesses the importance of its best-known figure, Feagh McHugh O'Byrne. Perhaps the major figure in Irish history of his period, the time has come for him to be viewed in the proper context of the national and international scene. The volume finishes with the destruction of the Byrnes' Country in the seventeenth century.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

Author's Introduction to Volume One

CHAPTER 1: The Burning of Dinn Ríg

Dinn Ríg – the origin legend – the rise of Uí Dúnlainge – the two Leinsters

CHAPTER 2: Lords of Leinster

The Uí Dúnlainge confederacy – the Vikings – the rise of Brian Boru – the rise of Uí Cheinnselaig – the Normans

CHAPTER 3: Mountain Wolves

The end of Uí Fáeláin – the O'Byrnes of the mountains – the Pale – the King of Leinster

CHAPTER 4: The Geraldine Expansion

Alliances – the Kildare overlordship – the divided clan – gentlemen of England – the Mountain Wolves

CHAPTER 5: Feagh McHugh O'Byrne

The Firebrand of Leinster – father and son – the alliances of Hugh O'Byrne – the battle of Glenmalure – waiting for Spain – the north-south alliance – the revenge of Walter Fitzgerald – unkenneling the fox – the battle of Avonmore – the fall of Ballinacor

CHAPTER 6: Dispossession

The “lawful” dispossession – the Confederacy – the Cromwellian confiscation – the Williamite confiscation

Genealogical Tables

Bibliography

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