Books in the Longman History of Ireland series

The second edition of the standard survey of Ireland from the late medieval period to the Tudor conquest. Offering a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. Includes two new chapters on the Lancastrian collapse and the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion. In the LONGMAN HISTORY OF IRELAND series.

The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic in Irish history. This is the story of the civil wars, religious controversies and battles for home rule that ripped across Stuart Ireland and lay the foundations for the modern troubles.