Table of Contents

Introduction: Irish representations and English alternatives; 1. The English invasion of Ireland; 2. Translating the reformation: John Bale's Irish Vocacyon; 3. Encountering Ireland: Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, and English Colonial Ventures; 4. Off the map: charting uncertainty in renaissance Ireland; 5. Mapping mutability: or, Spenser's Irish plot; 6. 'The Fatal Destiny of that Land': Elizabethan views of Ireland; 7. Tom Lee: the posing peacemaker; 8. Geoffrey Keating: apologist of Irish Ireland; 9. How Milton and some contemporaries read Spenser's View; 10. Extreme or mainstream?: the English independents and the Cromwellian reconquest of Ireland, 1649–1651.

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Essays dealing with the representation of Ireland by English Renaissance writers in the early modern period.