I don't know if this is the same book, but one by Kevin McKenny on the Laggan Army is in the pipeline for publication. When I last inquired, the due date was given as September 2004. Details are as follows: Title: The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-80 Author: Kevin McKenny Code no.: 1-85182-751-X UK Distributor: Gill & Macmillan Ltd Publisher: Four Courts Press, Dublin I understood that the book would also be available through the Ulster Historical Foundation. Dave Mitchell Cape Town South Africa ----- Original Message ----- From: Claire To: Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Book on the Laggan forces campaigns 1620-1685 Rachel wrote: > thesis by Kevin McKenny, State University of New York..."The Landed Interest, political ideology and Military campaigns of the North west Ulster Settlers and their Lagan Army"... > published by the Irish Academic Press... book title... [Kevin McKenny] For Kings or Ulster: The Landed Interest, Political Ideologies and Military > Campaigns of the British Settler Armies of the North West 1620-1685" > ISBN 0716525674 > > I have failed to find a copy for sale as it is OOP. ...

It looks as if this book is to be republished -as Dave says below. This is an extract from the Four Courts website - publication due Feb 2005. rachel The Laggan army in Ireland, 1640-80 KEVIN MCKENNY The subject of this book is the landed interests, political ideologies and military campaigns of the north-west Ulster settlers in Ireland between 1640 and c.1685. After demonstrating (by ethnic origins) the landholding patterns of these people on the eve of the great Irish Rebellion of 1641, it is shown that they responded to the threat generated by this insurrection, by forming themselves into a formidable military fighting corps, which was termed the 'Laggan Army'. When the King and Parliament went to war on the British mainland in 1642, the ideological divisions surrounding that conflict were slowly transferred to Ireland. This occurred when both the King and parliament sought aid from the settlers in Ireland. Initially the support given by Ulster's settlers to the sides in England was complicated by the Catholic threat to their estates in Ireland. When Parliament placed the vanquished King on trial for his life, however, the settlers in Ireland quickly polarised into those who supported the King and those who supported the ideologies of the Parliament. The result of this polarisation was that British civil war battles were fought on Irish soil, where settler fought settler over the ideological differences generated by the execution of Monarchy in 1649. This study looks at the fortunes of those settlers who supported the King Kevin McKenny, is a graduate of NUIM and SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. 240pp February 2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitchell" <mitch@pixie.co.za> To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 6:27 PM Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Kevin McKenny's Book on the Laggan Army > I don't know if this is the same book, but one by Kevin McKenny on the Laggan Army is in the pipeline for publication. When I last inquired, the due date was given as September 2004. > > Details are as follows: > > Title: The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-80 > Author: Kevin McKenny > Code no.: 1-85182-751-X > UK Distributor: Gill & Macmillan Ltd > Publisher: Four Courts Press, Dublin > I understood that the book would also be available through the Ulster Historical Foundation. > > > Dave Mitchell > Cape Town > South Africa > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Claire > To: > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:10 PM > Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Book on the Laggan forces campaigns 1620-1685 > > > Rachel wrote: > > > thesis by Kevin McKenny, State University of New York..."The Landed Interest, political ideology and Military > campaigns of the North west Ulster Settlers and their Lagan Army"... > > > published by the Irish Academic Press... book title... [Kevin McKenny] For Kings or Ulster: The Landed Interest, Political Ideologies and > Military > > Campaigns of the British Settler Armies of the North West 1620-1685" > > ISBN 0716525674 > > > > I have failed to find a copy for sale as it is OOP. > ... > > > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > All email to listowner should be sent to > postalq@grnco.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >