This book is a collection of essays in honour of Kenneth Nicholls, one of Ireland’s leading historians and author of numerous books and articles, including: Not only does the volume include a bibliography of his historical writings, but it also includes the following essays: D. O Corrain (UCC) The synod of Cashel, 1101; C. Manning (Duchas) Finghin McCarthy, king of Desmond, and the mystery of the second nunnery at Clonmacnoise; Sean Duffy (TCD) Scottish settlement in medieval Ulster; K. Simms (TCD) The MacMahon genealogy: a medieval forgery; Paul McCotter (independent scholar) The Fitzgeralds of Cloyne; Fiona Fitzsimons (Eneclann) Cardinal Wolsey and the reform of the lordship of Ireland; Bernadette Cunningham (RIA) & Raymond Gillespie (NUIM) The murder of a genealogist: learning, lineage and morality in Fermanagh, 1534; Aidan Empey (Church of Ireland Training College) & D. Edwards (UCC) Tipperary Ordinances of the Black Earl; Ciaran Brady (TCD) The end of the O'Reilly lordship, 1586-1612; Elizabeth FitzPatrick (NUIG) The parley sites of Hugh O'Neill; J. Casway (Howard College Maryland) Identifying ‘Arte McBarons Chief House His Hould’; B. McGrath (independent scholar) Irish students at the Inns of Court, 1603-40; David Edwards (UCC) Cultural conflict at the Limerick Assize of 1606; M. Curtis (UCC) The Clayton family in seventeenth-century Cork; B. Donovan (Eneclann) The Wexford Plantation and the Jacobean government