Having firmly established his credentials as an historian of the 1798 rising in Co Wicklow with his best-selling book on that subject, Ruan O'Donnell now adds to his considerable reputation with this sequel - an exhaustive and meticulous account of what happened in the county in the five years following the initial rebellion. Far from being cowed by the defeat of the rising elsewhere, Co Wicklow insurgents, led by Michael Dwyer, James Hughes and Michael Dalton, fought on for a further five years in a hopeless guerilla war of attrition. How and why they did so is explained in this detailed and stylishly written volume of 272 pages, which also includes appendices listing 1,100 named Wicklow insurgents and numerous illustrations. O'Donnell's use of sources is masterly and this book, together with his The Rebellion in Wicklow 1798, constitutes a tour de force in the field of historical research and writing.