Docwra's Derry: A Narration of Events in North-West Ulster 1600-1604

It is widely accepted that no understanding of modern Irish history is complete without an awareness of the significance of events in the seventeenth century. This is true in particular of the Ulster Plantation. Sir Henry Docwras military expedition which arrived in Lough Foyle in May 1600 at the height of the Nine Years War was instrumental in paving the way for James Is Plantation of Ulster that began only a few years later after Docwra the English stayed.Docwras Narration was first edited and transcribed by the great Irish scholar John ODonovan in 1849. This edition edited by Billy Kelly not only includes ODonovans comprehensive notes including translations and descriptions of all the Irish place-names mentioned by Docwra it also includes insights from more recent scholarship on the Nine Years War. An introduction new maps glossaries of terms a bibliography chronology and a full index all contribute to making this invaluable and previously scarcely-accessible text available for the general reader as well as being a must have for the many interested in military history.