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By: Paul Smith

ISBN: 9781526176356
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In Restoration Ireland the law primarily served the interests of the English state and the Anglo-Protestant community. This book is the first to explore how Irish Catholics experienced a legal system which was inimical to their interests. It does so through case studies based on a wide range of little used archival sources and Gaelic poetry.


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By: David Heffernan

ISBN: 9781526118165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides the first systematic analysis of the whole range of treatises written on the 'reform' of Ireland in Tudor times. By assessing approximately six-hundred extant treatises it demonstrates how the Tudors viewed Ireland and how they arrived at the policies which they chose to implement there during the sixteenth century. -- .


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By: David Brown

ISBN: 9781526131997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -- .


(Paperback)

By: David Brown

ISBN: 9781526163783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -- .


(Hardback)

By: David Edwards

ISBN: 9781526177292
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the court culture of Ireland and the Irish from the late-medieval period through to the revolutionary upheavals of the 1640s. By drawing on English, Irish and Latin sources, it paints a vivid and detailed picture of Irish politics and society in the European age of Renaissance.


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By: Patrick Little

ISBN: 9781526126702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.


(Paperback)

By: Patrick Little

ISBN: 9781526182487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.


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By: Michel Siochr

ISBN: 9780719088179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts. -- .


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By: Michel Siochr

ISBN: 9780719097263
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts. -- .


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By: Coleman A. Dennehy

ISBN: 9781526164728
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative machinery both inside and outside the kingdom.


(Hardback)

By: Coleman A. Dennehy

ISBN: 9781526133359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative machinery both inside and outside the kingdom.


(Paperback)

By: Michel Siochr

ISBN: 9780719095504
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to include the native Catholic experience. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Michel Siochr

ISBN: 9780719086083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to include the native Catholic experience. -- .


(Paperback)

By: David Edwards

ISBN: 9781526139337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book charts key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish experience down to the Restoration and greatly improves understanding of that complex and troubled relationship. -- .


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By: David Edwards

ISBN: 9780719097218
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book charts key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish experience down to the Restoration and greatly improves understanding of that complex and troubled relationship. -- .


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By: Simon Egan

ISBN: 9781526178411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how events within the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland shaped the affairs of the wider Irish and British Isles during the later medieval and early modern periods.