List of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in notes; 1. An Irish military tradition? Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery; 2. Irish warfare before 1100 T. M. Charles-Edwards; 3. Irish and Anglo-Norman warfare in twelfth-century Ireland Marie Therese Flanagan; 4. The defence of the English lordship, 1250-1450 Robin Frame; 5. Gaelic warfare in the middle ages Katharine Simms; 6. The Tudors and the origins of the modern Irish states: a standing army Steven G. Ellis; 7. The captains' games: army and society in Elizabethan Ireland Ciaran Brady; 8. The wars of religion, 1603-1660 Jane H. Ohlmeyer; 9. The Williamite war, 1689-1691 John Childs; 10. The Irish military establishment 1660-1776 Alan J. Guy; 11. The defence of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760 S. J. Connolly; 12. Defence, counter-insurgency and rebellion: Ireland, 1793-1803 Thomas Bartlett; 13. Irish soldiers abroad, 1600-1800 Harman Murtagh; 14. Non-professional soldiery, c. 1600-1800 David W. Miller; 15. Army organisation and society in the nineteenth century E. M. Spiers; 16. The army and law and order in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman; 17. Militarism in Ireland, 1900-1922 David Fitzpatrick; 18. The army in independent Ireland Eunan O'Halpin; 19. The British army and Ireland since 1922 Keith Jeffery; Notes; Bibliography; Index.