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Nowhere was the change in the technique of warfare more marked by the end of the reign than in Ireland. We have seen the immense disparity between English and Irish methods of waging war that reflected the disparity between their stages of civilisation. 1 But in the last decade of the century the Irish suddenly, and to a considerable extent, caught up. That they did so was mainly due to the genius of the last O’Neill, the great Tyrone.
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Cf. G. A. Hayes-McCoy, “ Clontibret ”, in Irish Historical Studies, June 1949, 158foil.
For his career v. Cyril Falls, “ Neill Garve: English Ally and Victim ”, The Irish Sword, Journal Mil. Hist. Soc. Ireland, 1949–50.
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Rowse, A.L. (1955). The Irish War. In: The Expansion of Elizabethan England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597136_11
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