Table of Contents

T. W. Moody: Introduction
1: D. B. Quinn & K. W. Nicholls: Ireland in 1534
2: G. A. Hayes-McCoy: The Royal Supremacy and Ecclesiastical Revolution 1534-47
3: G. A. Hayes-McCoy: Conciliation, Coercion, and the Protestant Reformation 1547-71
4: G. A. Hayes-McCoy: The Completion of the Tudor Conquest and the Advance of the Counter-Reformation 1571-1603
5: R. A. Butlin: Land and People c.1600
6: Aidan Clarke: The Irish Economy 1600-6-
7: Aidan Clarke, with R. Dudley Edwards: Pacification, Plantation, and the Catholic Question 1603-23
8: Aidan Clarke: Selling Royal Favours 1624-32
9: Aidan Clarke: The Government of Wentworth 1632-40
10: Aidan Clarke: The Breakdown of Authority 1640-41
11: Patrick J. Corish: The Rising of 1641 and the Catholic Confederacy 1641-5
12: Patrick J. Corish: Ormond, Rinuccini, and the Confederates 1645-9
13: Patrick J. Corish: The Cromwellian Conquest 1649-53
14: Patrick J. Corish: The Cromwellian Regime 1650-60
15: L. M. Cullen: Economic Trends 1660-91
16: Michael Dolley: The Irish Coinage 1534-1691
17: J. G. Simms: The Restoration 1660-85
18: J. H. Andrews: Land and People c.1685
19: J. G. Simms: The War of the Two Kings 1685-91
20: Brian Ó Cuiv: The Irish Language in the Early Modern Period
21: Alan Bliss: The English Language in Early Modern Ireland
22: Benignus Millett: Irish Literature in Latin 1550-1700
23: John J. Silke: The Irish Abroad 1534-1691

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