Sixteenth-Century Ireland

The Incomplete Conquest

• Author(s): Colm Lennon,
• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
• Pages: 390
• ISBN_10: 0717116239
  ISBN_13: 9780717116232
  
• Language: en

Description:... In 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal power. Only a small area around Dublin was directly administered by the crown. The rest of the island was run in more or less autonomous fashion by Anglo-Norman magnates or Gaelic chieftains.