Rathlin Island massacre

Bruce's cave, one of Rathlin Island's caves, etching by Mrs. Catherine Gage (1851)

The Rathlin Island massacre took place on Rathlin Island, off the coast of Ireland on 26 July 1575,[1] when more than 600 Scots and Irish were killed.

  1. ^ Hadfield, Andrew; Maley, Willy (1993). Bradshaw, Brendan (ed.). Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521416344.