'Civilizing' Gaelic Leinster: The Extension of Tudor Rule in the O'Byrne & O'Toole Lordships Contributor(s): Maginn, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1851828036 ISBN-13: 9781851828036 Publisher: Four Courts Press OUR PRICE: $73.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 Annotation: This book charts the extension of Tudor government into the independent Gaelic lordships of the OByrnes and OTooles (Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin) from the origins of this process of expansion in the late 15th century until the abortive attempt under the Elizabethan regime to transform both lordships into an English county. Here we see an autonomous Gaelic district initially embrace its entrance into the fold of a nascent Tudor administrative unit before ultimately rejecting, through armed rebellion, what had become intrusive English military rule and cultural domination. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland |
Dewey: 320.441 |
LCCN: 2005279579 |
Physical Information: 223 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland |
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Publisher Description: This book charts the extension of Tudor government into the independent Gaelic lordships of the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles (Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin) from the origins of this process of expansion in the late 15th century until the abortive attempt under the Elizabethan regime to transform both lordships into an English county. Here we see an autonomous Gaelic district initially embrace its entrance into the fold of a nascent Tudor administrative unit before ultimately rejecting, through armed rebellion, what had become intrusive English military rule and cultural domination. |