O'Connor, Thomas (2004) Hugh O'Neill: religious chameleon, free spirit or ardent Catholic? In: the Battle of Kinsale. Wordwell, Dublin, pp. 59-72.

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Most agree that the Nine Years War (1594-1603) was a least partly religious in motivation. Curiously enough, while we do know something of the religious issues which protagonists claimed as inspiration, we know little of their own religious practice or convictions. This is especially the case of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone. Religious conviction is, of course, a notoriously dangerous field of historical enquiry but given that O'Neill propaganda presented him as a Catholic crusader and taking into account the doubts some of his contemporaries raised regarding the sincerity of his religious convictions, it might not be amiss to enquire, in so far as the sources permit, what O'Neill's Catholicism was like.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Hugh O'Neill
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
Item ID:	390
Depositing User:	Thomas O'Connor
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2006
Journal or Publication Title:	The Battle of Kinsale
Publisher:	Wordwell, Dublin
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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