Volume XXIV. Number 96. Winter 2004. €15.00
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West Cork and the Elizabethan Wars, 1565-1603 by Edward O’Mahony 123
A Prayer for the good successe of her Maiesties forces in Ireland [1599] 160
Irish soldiers in Swedish service 1609-1613 by Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean 161
Lally, the Régime’s Scapegoat by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 165
The exchange of letters between Lally and Coote upon the surrender of Pondicherry, 15 January 1761 177
Countering a French threat: the Irish experience in the development of Light Infantry between 1793 and 1803 by Ivan Nelson 179
The Fighting 69th times four by Caroline M. Rerucha 192
W.Y. Carman (1909-2003) 193
What have you done for Ireland? The 36th (Ulster) Division in the Great War: Politics, propaganda and the demography of deaths by Yvonne McEwen 194
Easter Rising 1916: Count Plunkett’s letter to Pope Benedict XV by Jérôme aan de Wiel 219
Notes: Two wartime memories of the railway line to Bundoran 233
Book Reviews 235