Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603

Our understanding of the interaction of English and Gaelic worlds (culminating in the Tudor conquest and the collapse of Gaelic rule) has been transformed over the past thirty years through the detailed research of Irish and Tudor specialists and this wealth of new scholarship is fully synthesised in the text. Steven Ellis also explores the the nature of the transition from medieval Ireland's two nations to the centralized Tudor kingdom.