Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603 (2^nd Ed.)
English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule
Longman History of Ireland Series

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both as a frontier society divided between English and Gaelic worlds, and also as a problem of government within the wider Tudor state. This edition includes two major new chapters: the first extending the coverage back a generation, to assess the impact on English Ireland of the crisis of lordship that accompanied the Lancastrian collapse in France and England; and the second greatly extending the material on the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion.

1. The Tudor territories 2. The Lordship of Ireland c. 1525 3. Gaelic Lordships c. 1534 with prominent English Marchers 4. Dioceses in Reformation Ireland 5. Irish religious houses on the eve of the Dissolution 6. Tudor plantations with county boundaries at 1603 7. Ulster during the Nine Years War

• Established as the standard account of the period the new edition has been fully updated.
• The text has been greatly expanded with two new chapters: one covering the important years from 1447 to 1470 and the crisis of lordship in English Ireland and the second examining in greater detail the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion.
• Steven Ellis is an acknowledged expert on Tudor frontiers and state formation but he also looks beyond these developments to consider Ireland itself as a problem within the wider Tudor state.
• Not only a survey: the book is also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland.