Autor/-in: Declan McClare

Declan McClare was raised in the Antrim glens whose sixteenth-century wars form the subject of this book, and has spent much of his adult life tracing the family histories, clan lore, and battlefield sites that still mark the north Antrim coastline. A lifelong student of Gaelic and Scoto-Irish history, he has spent years walking the ground at Ballycastle, Knocklayd, and the Glens themselves, gathering the local memory and documentary record that inform his narrative work. He writes with particular attention to the interwoven fortunes of Ireland's Gaelic lordships and their Hebridean neighbours, and to the human cost too often lost beneath the strategic narrative. Blood and Redshanks is his account of the conflict that shaped his own home ground, written in the belief that this remarkable and largely forgotten story deserves to be told in full.