Table of Contents

The 'failure' of the first English conquest of Ireland; England and Ireland, 1171-1399; King Henry III and Ireland; the shaping of a peripheral lordship; Ireland and the Barons' wars; the Bruces in Ireland, 1315-1318; the campaign against the Scots in Munster, 1317; English policies and Anglo--Irish attitudes in the crisis of 1341-42; 'les Engleys nees en Irelande'; the English political identity in medieval Ireland; aristocracies and the political configuration of the British Isles; overlordship and reaction, c. 1250-c. 1450; power and society in the lordship of Ireland, 1272-1377; war and peace in the medieval lordship of Ireland; the justice and the murder of the MacMurroughs in 1282; English officials and Irish chiefs in the fourteenth century; military service in the lordship of Ireland, 1290-1360; institutions and society on the Anglo-Gaelic frontier; the judicial powers of the medieval Irish keepers of the peace.