Rivalry and Conflict

Kathleen Gormley has a Masters degree in modern history and teaches history and politics at St Cecilia's College in Derry. For two years she was seconded to the Western Education and Library Board as a History advisor. She is author of several local history publications and textbooks, including co-authorship of the other two books in this series. Dr Austin Logan, until his untimely death in 1995, was an Advisor on Environment and Society with the Western Education and Library Board. He was the prime mover behind this series of books.

• 1      The Reformation                                            2      England and Spain 400 years ago                              3      Elizabeth and Philip — rivals                                    4      Facts about Elizabeth and Philip                               5      Conflict over new lands                                              6      Catholic and Protestant countries in Europe              7      Europe 400 years ago: true or false?                         8      Mary Queen of Scots                                     9      Two cousins — Elizabeth and Mary                          10      Mary in England                                                      11      Mary is executed                                                      12      Studying what really happened in the past              13      The Spanish Armada 1588                             14      Timeline — 1588                                                     15      The Armada sets sail from Spain                             16      The English and Spanish ships                                17      The Great Armada is defeated                                 18      What is a colony?                                           19      Fact or Fantasy?                                                      20      The first colonists in America                                   21      An English colony in America                                  22      Ireland 400 years ago                                                 23      The Plantation of Ireland                                         24      The Planters come to Ireland                                   25      The Flight of the Earls, 1607                                   26      The Ulster Plantation                                              27      A Plantation Bawn                                                  28      The Plantation in Co Londonderry                           29      Life as a Planter in Ireland                                      30      Life as a native Irish person                                     31      James I becomes King 1603–1625                  32      King and Parliament                                               33      Charles I, King of England 1625–1649                    34      Kings and Parliament in the 17th century                35      Charles I and the Puritans                                      36      The English Civil War begins in 1642                      37      Two important battles                                             38      Defeat and execution for Charles I, 1649                 39      Parliament rules England, 1649–1660                    40      The Puritans                                                               41      The Puritan family                                                   42      The 1641 Rebellion                                                     43      The 1641 Rebellion in Co Armagh                            44      The story of Jane Armstrong                                    45      War in Ireland, 1641–1650                                      46      “To Hell or Connaught”                                            47      Oliver Cromwell — Lord Protector                           48      England gets a king again                                          49      James II becomes King of England, 1685                 50      The Glorious Revolution 1688                                  51      Rulers during the war in Ireland 1689–1692  page  52      The main battles in Ireland                                     53      The Siege of Derry, 1689                                         54      The Battle of the Boyne, July, 1690                         55      The Battle of Aughrim, July 1691                            56      The Siege of Limerick, August–September 1691      57      The Treaty of Limerick, 1692                                  58      The Wild Geese                                                        Timeline