Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule

Steven Ellis explores Ireland as a frontier society divided between the English and Gaelic worlds, considers the nature of the transition from medieval Ireland's two nations to the centralized Tudor kingdom and examines Ireland as a problem within the wider Tudor state. Not just a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland, in which Ellis puts forth that Irish nationalism and Irish alienation from English rule were chiefly a consequence, rather than a cause, of the Tudor conquest.