Sixteenth-century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest (New Gill history of Ireland)
By Colm Lennon.
Description
In 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal power. Only a small area around Dublin was directly administered by the crown. The rest of the island was run in more or less autonomous fashion by Anglo-Norman magnates or Gaelic chieftains. By 1600 there had been a huge extension of English royal power. First, the influence of the semi-independent magnates was broken; second, in the 1590s, crown forces successfully fought a war against the last of the old Gaelic strongholds in Ulster. The secular conquest of Ireland had been accomplished in the course of the century. But the ...
ISBN(s)
0717116239, 9780717116232
