books.google.com - The Reformation in England further distanced the Irish, as the majority of Irishmen adhered stubbornly to their Catholicism. Eventually, in Elizabeth's reign, both sides resorted to the use of force on a large scale in a series of bloody wars and rebellions that were to culminate in the Earl of Tyrone's...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Irish_Wars_1485_1603.html?id=tEq7B-OUArYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Irish Wars 1485-1603