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Prof Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in IrelandEDin a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues…
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Jane Ohlmeyer, Briona Nic Dhiarmada
Who are the Irish? Where did they come from? Where did, and do, they go? 6 million people live on the island of Ireland, but 80 million people worldwide say…
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Jane Ohlmeyer
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the re-making of Ireland’s aristocracy during the seventeenth century.
This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It challenges traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and it…
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Offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland, within their global and comparative contexts, to explain in an accessible…
Edward Hyde
This is the only modern edition of Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon’s ‘A short view of the state and condition of the kingdom of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to…
This volume offered the first in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished scholars investigate on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers…
This collection of essays examines how the tumultuous events of the 1640s and 1650s transformed the course of Ireland’s intellectual, social, economic, military, tenurial and, of course, political history. The…
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how the tumultuous events of the 1640s and 1650s transformed the course of Ireland’s intellectual, social, economic, military, tenurial and, of course, political history…
Leading scholars offer an analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.
This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic…
Addresses questions arising from the development and use by rulers and states of military, diplomatic, economic and political intelligence from ancient times. This book takes a view of intelligence as…
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Addresses questions arising from the development and use by rulers and states of military, diplomatic, economic and political intelligence. This book views intelligence as an element in state and international…
This authoritative and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within its broader Atlantic, European, imperial and global contexts. Written…
