Elizabeth I's War with Ireland
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Queen Elizabeth I, Gloriana, victor over the Spanish and patron of the arts ushered in a Golden Age for England. But she was also Queen of Ireland, and her campaigns to control her Catholic subjects in the late 17th century led to some of the bloodiest battles of her reign. The Nine Years' War as it came to be known would bring the English treasury to the edge of bankruptcy, and submit Ireland's population to genocidal violence.
So what was Elizabeth's claim to Ireland? How did Irish leaders respond to English incursions? And how far can we trace the roots of partition and the Troubles to this period? On this episode Dan is joined by James O'Neill, a historian of Irish history, to discuss the conflict and its legacy.
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| 0:50.7 | Hi buddy, welcome to Dan Snow's History It, Queen Elizabeth I, Gloriana, Victor |
| 0:56.8 | over the Spanish patron of the arts who ruled over a golden age for England. |
| 1:01.6 | And on today's podcast, we're going to talk about her other kingdom. |
| 1:04.8 | She was also Queen of Ireland, but that was contested and she thought her longest, bloodiest |
| 1:11.1 | and most expensive conflict, not against the might of Spain, but against her own Catholic |
| 1:16.9 | subjects. |
| 1:17.9 | This is the story of the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, of the nine years war, of the |
| 1:23.6 | massive violence that tore Ireland apart and brought the English treasury to the point |
| 1:29.0 | of bankruptcy. |
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