Volume XXI. Number 86. Winter 1999. €15.00
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Contemporary accounts of the battle of Rathmines 1649 by Kenneth Ferguson 363
Irish military men serving Spain in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries by Eileen A. Sullivan 387
The Irish Sea-Officers of the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 by Anthony Gary Brown 393
A Tour in Ireland, 1880-3: The Second Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment by John Johnston 430
The "Hay Plan”: an account of Anglo-French recruitment efforts in Ireland, August 1918 by Jérôme aan de Wiel 434
"No blast or shock”: the test of the "Bee Hive" shelter by James Scannell 446
Notes 449
Book reviews 454
Proceedings, 1999 466
Obituary: Commandant Peter Young 469
The Military History Society of Ireland 472