Irish Confederate Wars

The Irish Confederate Wars were fought in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. The Wars were the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms - a series of civil wars in Kingdoms of Ireland, England and Scotland (all ruled by Charles I of England) that also included the English Civil War and Scottish Civil War. The conflict in Ireland essentially pitted the native Irish Roman Catholics against the Protestant British settlers and their supporters in England and Scotland.

Sources

• Padraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War, Cork 2001
• Jane Ohlmeyer, John Keegan (ed?s), The Civil Wars, Oxford 1998.
• G.A. Hayes McCoy, Irish Battles, Belfast 1990.
• James Scott Wheeler, Cromwell in Ireland, New York 1999