A good account with a slightly misleading title. Much of it is about the characters Fleetwood, Henry Cromwell and Ludlow and the details of the colonisation are not extensive. The author is slightly careless in consistently referring to Owen Roe O'Neill as Eoin Ruadh rather than Eoghan Ruadh - perhaps he doesn't realise that Eoin and Eoghan are completely different names; and the place-name Kingstown dates from the 19th century.