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This book offers an extended reinterpretation of English policy in Ireland over the sixteenth century. It seeks to show that the major conflicts between Tudor governors and native lords which characterised the period were not the result of a deliberate Tudor strategy of confrontation, but arose from a failed experiment in legal reform and cultural assimilation which had been applied with remarkable success elsewhere in the Tudor dominions. The...

James Anthony Froude is among the most frequently cited but gravely misunderstood figures in Victorian intellectual life. This is the first coherent survey of Froude's intellectual life from his early days as an Oxford enfant terrible to his final years as a pillar of the establishment and unapologetic reactionary.

This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Three times Viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. Sidney's account of his public career in Ireland, written in the winter of 1582-3, is one of the earliest political memoirs in English literature. It is unique among early memoirs in its size, richness of detail, and apparent fidelity to the factual record.Composed in plain prose and consciously shorn of decoration and classical allusion, his narrati...

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A revisionist account of Irish history under the Tudors.

This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.