Introduction: the confederate wars revisited – Patrick Little
1 Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43 – David Edwards
2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642 – David Brown
3 ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46 – Aoife Duignan
4 ‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45 – Andrew Robinson
5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48 – Coleman A. Dennehy
6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48 – Bríd Mc Grath
7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47 – Patrick Little
8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards, and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649 – Kevin Forkan
9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics – Eamon Darcy
10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft, and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland – John Morrill
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Micheál Ó Siochrú is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin