Anglicizing Tudor Connacht

Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond

Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis

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The scholarship of the influential historian Steven G. Ellis provides inspiration and coherence to this collection of original essays assembled in his honour. Explorations of the history of...
Author/Editor: Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

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The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by...
Author/Editor: James O'Neill

Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, c.1573–6

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Between the summer of 1573 and the autumn of 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to...
Author/Editor: David Heffernan

The Tudor discovery of Ireland

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The rapid acquisition of knowledge about Ireland in Tudor times constituted a discovery of no small importance for the development of the early modern English state. How...
Author/Editor: Christopher Maginn & Steven G. Ellis

Early modern Duhallow, c.1534-1641

The crisis, decline and fall of Irish lordship

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In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the mountainous boggy lands...
Author/Editor: David Heffernan

Blarney Castle

An Irish tower house

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Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle...
Author/Editor: James Lyttleton

Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

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In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and...
Author/Editor: Jane Fenlon & Sarah Maguire

The Siege of Londonderry

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As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the...
Author/Editor: Piers Wauchope

The operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48

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This is the first operational account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when...
Author/Editor: Bríd McGrath

The annals of the four masters

Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century

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There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, that allowed them to become accepted as an...
Author/Editor: Bernadette Cunningham

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

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Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo-Norman...
Author/Editor: Paul MacCotter

Reforming Galway

Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas's collegiate church, 1550-1750

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This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change on a national basis, from...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie