Darren McGettigan
Darren is an established Author and Genealogist from County Wicklow, Ireland. He provides genealogy services to help you discover your family history in Ireland.
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The McCabe Galloglass Family
The arrival of well armed mercenaries (gallóglaigh ~ foreign warriors), to Ireland from the Gaelic Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the late medieval period, greatly contributed to the growth in the military power of the major Gaelic Irish chieftains who could afford to hire a galloglass constable with his company of warriors and reward them with grants of land and many other priviledges.
- McCabe family
- McSweeney family
- McDonnell galloglass
- McSheehy family
- Galloglass genealogies
- Forged medieval Irish genealogies
- galloglass constables
- Breifne
- The Maguires of Fermanagh
- Oriel
- Niall Garbh O'Donnell
- McSweeney Banagh
- Galloglass battles
- Annals of the Four Masters
- Fermanagh Genealogies
- King Sitric Silkenbeard
As Game as Ned Kelly
It is often forgotten that in the early modern period, from the 1500s to the early 1700s Ireland had a very strong bandit tradition. In Clan times and up to the 1641 rebellion, Gaelic robbers and bandits often took to the forests and mountain passes of Ireland where they were called woodkerne or tree soldiers.
- irish in australia
- irish bushrangers
- ned kelly's irish roots
- ned kelly and county tipperary
- irish convicts and australia
- woodkerne
- tories
- rapparees
- irish guerilla fighters
- australian folk hero
- ned kelly controversy
- irish policemen in australia
- discrimination against the irish in australia
- the stringybark creek shootout
- the glenrowan hotel shootout
- sergeant kennedy
- constables lonigan and scanlon
- ned kelly's last words ~ such is life
Wild Geese of the Tsars
By the 1700s most Irishmen who left the island to serve as soldiers in the armies of continental Europe joined the Irish Brigade in the French Royal army. After the French army the next most popular destinations for Irish mercenaries were the armies of Spain and Austria. From 1750 service in the British army also became popular. However, throughout the eighteenth century a handful of determined and indeed talented Irish soldiers make the long and arduous journey east to join the Russian army and serve the Tsars.
- the irish in russia
- major general joseph o'rourke
- count john o'rourke
- a treatise on the art of war
- the de lacys of russia
- the von brownes of russia
- the o'rourkes of russia
- irish soldiers in russian imperial service
- john or'rouke and empress elizabeth of russia
- count o'rourke and frederick the great
- count o'rourke saves berlin
- general o'rourke in serbia
- o'rourke and the turks
- general o'roruke and the battle of varvariono
- irish soldiers in the napoleonic wars
- the o'rorukes and the bolshevik revolution
From Donegal to Australia - the Derryveagh evictions of 1861
After the Great Famine of the 1840s many Scottish land speculators bought estates in County Donegal where they planned to replicate the harsh experience of the Scottish Highlands where the landlords evicted almost all of their tenants in order to graze more profitable sheep. However, the Donegal Irish proved to be much more resilient and resourceful than their Highland Scottish counterparts and successfully resisted most attempts to clear them off their own land.
The Irish emigrants and the Plains Indian Wars
The Irish have a long and proud history of serving with distinction in the armies of foreign countries. It began in the early seventeenth century when the exiled Gaelic nobles of Ulster raised many Irish regiments to serve in the Spanish Army of Flanders, and continued with the service of the famous Irish Brigade in the Royal French army in the 1700s.
- irish emigrants to usa
- nineteenth century irish emigrants
- captain myles keogh
- the irish and the us army
- battle of the little bighorn
- the irish and the native americans
- irish papal volunteers
- papal states
- myles keogh and general custer
- myles keogh and comanche
- myles keogh carlow
- irish mercenaries
- american civla war
