First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great
historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent …

The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the
earliest times. James Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries …

Colm Lennon's Sixteenth-Century Ireland, the second instalment in the New Gill History of
Ireland series, looks at how the Tudor conquest of Ireland by Henry VIII and the country's …

During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's
champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody …

Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple
facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to …

William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State explores the complex relationship which existed
between England and Ireland in the Tudor period, using the long association of William …

The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of
state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence …

\/[uch more so than in modern times, sharp cultural and social differences lYl distinguished
the various peoples inhabiting the British Isles in the later middle ages. Not surprisingly …

The present paper is intended as a contribution to the recent debate on the failure of the Irish
Reformation. It commences with a critical summary of the modern historiography of the …

Ireland's position as a kingdom in early modern Europe was, in some respects, unique, and
this eccentricity sheds light upon the complexity of governing a multiple kingdom during the …