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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. By 1600, there had been a huge extension of English royal power. First, the influence of the semi-independent magnates was broken; second, in the 1590s crown forces successfully fought a war against the last of the old Gaelic strongholds in Ulster. The secular conquest of Ireland was, therefore, accomplished in the course of the century. But the Reformation made little headway. The Anglo-Norman community remained stubbornly Catholic, as did the Gaelic nation. Their loss of political influence did not result in the expropriation of their lands. Most property still remained in Catholic hands. England's failure to effect a revolution in church as well as in state meant that the conquest of Ireland was incomplete. The seventeenth century, with its wars of religion, was the consequence. ""Colm Lennon's achievement is to bring alive the physical and mental complexities of the island with which the Tudor administrators repeatedly wrestled.""-Irish Historical Review.
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Prof Colm Lennon recently retired as Professor of History in the National University of Ireland (NUI Maynooth). Author of numerous publications and books, including John Rocque's Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city, Sixteenth-Century Ireland, and Confraternities and Sodalities in Ireland: Charity, Devotion and Sociability.
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Colm Lennons achievement is to bring alive the physical and mental complexities of the island with which the Tudor administrators repeatedly wrestled --Irish Historical Review
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- PublisherGill & Macmillan Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0717116220
- ISBN 13 9780717116225
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages390
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Sixteenth-century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest (New Gill History of Ireland)
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