Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule / Edition 2

by Steven G. Ellis

Overview

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both as a frontier society divided between English and Gaelic worlds, and also as a problem of government within the wider Tudor state. This edition includes two major new chapters: the first extending the coverage back a generation, to assess the impact on English Ireland of the crisis of lordship that accompanied the Lancastrian collapse in France and England; and the second greatly extending the material on the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582019010
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/19/1998
Series:	Longman History of Ireland
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Steven G. Ellis

Table of Contents

1. The Tudor territories 2. The Lordship of Ireland c. 1525 3. Gaelic Lordships c. 1534 with prominent English Marchers 4. Dioceses in Reformation Ireland 5. Irish religious houses on the eve of the Dissolution 6. Tudor plantations with county boundaries at 1603 7. Ulster during the Nine Years War

Editorial Reviews

'Ireland in the age of the Tudors is not merely a revision of the earlier Tudor Ireland but is revisionism at its original and best...an essential text for all students of early modern Ireland.'
John McGurk, Irish Studies Review 'alternative, stimulating and highly original persepctives on Tudor Ireland.'
Mary Ann Lyons, Irish Economic and Social History

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