2. CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES 6: Women and War, 1550-1660

3. Women and War, 1550-1660 1534: The Kildare Rebellion 1534: The Kildare Rebellion 1556: Plantation in Counties Laois and Offaly 1556: Plantation in Counties Laois and Offaly 1569: Butler Revolt 1569: Butler Revolt 1579-83: The Desmond Rebellion 1579-83: The Desmond Rebellion 1580: The Baltinglass Rebellion 1580: The Baltinglass Rebellion 1586: The Munster Plantations 1586: The Munster Plantations 1595-1603: Nine Years War 1595-1603: Nine Years War 1607: Flight of the Earls 1607: Flight of the Earls 1608: Rebellion of Sir Cahir O’Doherty 1608: Rebellion of Sir Cahir O’Doherty 1610: The Plantation of Ulster 1610: The Plantation of Ulster 1641: Outbreak of Rebellion in Ireland 1641: Outbreak of Rebellion in Ireland 1652: Final Parliamentarian victory in Ireland 1652: Final Parliamentarian victory in Ireland

4. Women and War, 1550-1660 New opportunities provided by War Local Arena Work and Services Women take on traditional male roles Representation among Settlers and English: Devilish Viragos Amazons Preservers of Catholicism Settlers and Emigrants? The Nobility, the Middling Sort, and Peasants Women and the Law

5. Women and War, 1550-1660 Further Reading: Mary Cullen, ‘History women and history men – the politics of women’s history’, in Daltun Ó Ceallaigh (ed.), Reconsiderations of Irish history and culture: selected papers from the Desmond Greaves summer school, 1989-93 (Dublin, 1994) (Dublin, 2005) Bernadette Whelan, “ ‘The Weaker Vessel”? The impact of warfare on women in seventeenth-century Ireland’ in Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless (eds), Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women, 4: Victims or Viragos? (Dublin, 2005)