Book review - Osprey series "Irish Wars 1463 - 1603"

The wars in Ireland during the Tudor reign seem similar to Vietnam or Afghanistan - a large military super power fighting a fierce proud enemy in often unforgiving territory and being beaten as often as not. To be honest, I was most familiar from this period from the Alan Hale sequence in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - Essex was thumped by the Irish, but his replacement, Mountjoy, crushed the revolt for good (well, until it flared up again).