The Tudor Discovery of Ireland

by Christopher Maginn and Steven G. Ellis

The rapid acquisition of knowledge about Ireland in Tudor times constituted a discovery of no small importance for the development of the early modern English state. How the Tudors, and the most influential members of the political establishment who served them, came to be acquainted with Ireland - with its history, with its politics and economy, with its people, and with its geography - and how that acquired knowledge was applied is the subject of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846825733
• ISBN13: 9781846825736
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"