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This book provides the first systematic analysis of the whole range of treatises written on the 'reform' of Ireland in Tudor times. By assessing approximately six-hundred extant treatises it demonstrates how the Tudors viewed Ireland and how they arrived at the policies which they chose to implement there during the sixteenth century.
List of contents
Introduction: Debating Tudor policy in Ireland: The 'reform' treatises
1. Conquest or conciliation? The policy debate in late Henrician Ireland,
c.1515-1546
2. 'Reform' treatises and the inception of the Tudor conquest in mid-sixteenth-century Ireland, 1546-1565
3. Treatise writing and the expansion of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, 1565-1578
4. Complaint, reform and conflict: Treatise writing in late Elizabethan Ireland, 1579-1594
Conclusion
Select bibliography of primary sources
Index
About the author
David Heffernan is an R. J. Hunter Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast
Summary
This book provides the first systematic analysis of the whole range of treatises written on the ‘reform’ of Ireland in Tudor times. By assessing approximately six-hundred extant treatises it demonstrates how the Tudors viewed Ireland and how they arrived at the policies which they chose to implement there during the sixteenth century. -- .
