Research Catalog

Title

Sixteenth-century Ireland : the incomplete conquest / Colm Lennon.

Author

Lennon, Colm.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Description

390 pages; 23 cm

Alternative Title

16th century Ireland.

Subject

• Ireland > History > 16th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-360) and index.

Contents

• The natural environment about 1500. The political environment: the lordship of Ireland as framework -- 1. Town and County in the English Part of Ireland, c. 1500. Towns and their ruling groups. Cultural and economic functions of towns. The meshing of manor and market -- 2. Society and Culture in Gaelic Ireland. Peasants and landlords in Gaelic society. Gaelic lords and overlords. Law and learning among the Gaelic population -- 3. The Kildares and their Critics, 1500-20. The basis of Kildare family power. The Earls of Kildare and Gaelic Ireland. Kildare's apogee and the rise of Old English reformers -- 4. Kildare Power and Tudor Intervention, 1520-35. The Surrey expedition and its significance. The rotating governorship in the 1520s: Fitzgerald and Butler in balance. Causes and course of the Kildare rebellion -- 5. Religion and Reformation, 1500-40. The pre-Reformation church among the English of Ireland. Religion in Gaelic Ireland in the late middle ages. The early Reformation under Henry VIII.
• 6. Political and Religious Reform and Reaction, 1536-56. Options for reform: the failure of Lord Deputy Grey. Accommodation and assimilation: St. Leger's initial success. Militarism and modification of policy in the mid-century years -- 7. The Pale and Greater Leinster, 1556-88. Ambitious lord deputyships and Leinster, 1556-79. Coexistence and conflict among Old English, Gaelic Irish and New English. Crisis in the Pale, 1580-86 -- 8. Munster: Presidency and Plantation, 1565-95. English activity and native reaction, 1565-73. Desmond, the presidency and rebellion, 1573-83. The planning and practice of plantation -- 9. Connacht: Council and Composition, 1569-95. The establishment of the presidency council. The Composition and communal relations within Connacht, 1585-95 -- 10. Ulster and the General Crisis of the Nine Years' War, 1560-1603. Sussex, Sidney and Shane O'Neill. Colonial schemes and their aftermath. The rise of Hugh O'Neill. The Nine Years' War.
• 11. From Reformation to Counter-Reformation, 1560-1600. Structural weakness of the church and problems of evangelisation. Communal responses to the Reformation. Religious conviction and political identity in a time of crisis, 1579-1600.

ISBN

0312124627

LCCN

94032460

OCLC

• 31075055
• ocm31075055

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries