Bibliography of readings related to Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland

This article is related to Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger.

The following list is arranged alphabetically. While not meant to be comprehensive, this list is meant to lead the interested reader to some of the many resources on Renaissance Ireland.

Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland. Edited by David Edwards, Padraig Lenihan, and Clodagh Tait. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.

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Asch, Ronald. Nobilities in Transition 1550–1700: Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe. New York: Arnold, 2003.

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Barnard, Toby. Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possession in Ireland, 1641–1770. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

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Barton, D. Plunket. Links Between Ireland and Shakespeare. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1919.

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The Battle of Kinsale. Edited by Hiram Morgan. Bray, Ireland: Wordwell, 2004.

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Berleth, Richard. The Twilight Lords: An Irish Chronicle. New York: Viking, 1978.

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Braddick, Michael. State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Bradshaw, Brendan. The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

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Brady, Ciaran. The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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———. Shane O’Neill. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1996.

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Breatneach, Padraig A. “The Chief’s Poet. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83c (1983), 37–79.

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———. Teamai taighde Nua-Ghaeilge. Dublin: An Sagart, 1997.

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Breen, Colin. Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012.

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The British Problem, c. 1534–1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago. Edited by Brendan Bradshawand John Morrill. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.

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Byrne, Francis J. Irish Kings and High-Kings. London: B. T. Batsford, 1973.

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Caball, Marc. Poets and Politics: Continuity and Reaction in Irish Poetry, 1558–1625. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

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Canny, Nicholas. Making Ireland British, 1580–1650. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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———. The Upstart Earl: A Study of the Social and Mental World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork, 1566–1643. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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Carey, Vincent. Surviving the Tudors: The Wizard Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002.

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Carney, James. The Irish Bardic Poet. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1967.

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Chambers, Anne. As Wicked a Woman: Eleanor, Countess of Desmond. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1986.

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———. At Arm’s Length: Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin: New Island, 2004.

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———. Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, c. 1530–1603. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1979; rev. ed. 1998.

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———. Shadow Lord: Theobald Burke, Tibbot-ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the Pirate Queen, Grace O’Malley. Dublin: Ashfield Press, 2007.

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Clanricard’s Castle: Portumna House, Co. Galway. Edited by Jane Fenlon. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012.

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Clarke, Aidan. The Old English in Ireland, 1625–42. Reprint edition. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.

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Derricke, John. The Image of Irelande (1581). Edited by D. B. Quinn. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985.

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Dictionary of Irish Biography. 9 vols. Edited by J. J. McGuire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c. 1540–1660. Edited by Michael Potterton and Thomas Herron. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012.

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The Dukes of Ormond, 1610–1745. Edited by Toby Barnard and Jane Fenlon. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2000.

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Edwards, David. The Ormond Lordship in County Kilkenny, 1515–1642. The Rise and Fall of Butler Feudal Power. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.

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Ellis, Steven. Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power: The Making of the British State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Feagh McHugh O’Byrne: The Wicklow Firebrand, a Volume of Quatercentennial Essays. Edited by Conor O'Brien. Journal of the Rathdrum Historical Society I (1998).

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FitzPatrick, Elizabeth. Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland, c. 1100–1600: A Cultural Landscape Study. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2004.

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Fletcher, Alan. Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

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Gillespie, Raymond. Colonial Ulster: The Settlement of East Ulster, 1600–1641. Cork: Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, 1985.

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———. Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Making Ireland Modern. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006.

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Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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———. Edmund Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Hammer, Paul. The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Herron, Thomas. Spenser’s Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.

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Ireland in the Renaissance, c. 1540– 1660. Edited by Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.

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Kane, Brendan. The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541–1641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Leerssen, Joep. Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, Its Development and Literary Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

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Lennon, Colm. The Lords of Dublin in an Age of Reformation. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1989.

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———. Richard Stanihurst the Dubliner, 1547–1618. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1981.

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———. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. Rev. ed. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2005.

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Lordship in Medieval Ireland: Image and Reality. Edited by Linda Doran and James LyttletonDublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.

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Lyons, Mary Ann, and Thomas O’Connor. Strangers to Citizens: The Irish in Europe, 1600–1800. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2008.

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Lyttleton, James. Blarney Castle: An Irish Tower House. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.

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MacCarthy-Morrogh, Michael. The Munster Plantation: English Migration to Southern Ireland, 1583–1641. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

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Maginn, Christopher. “Civilizing” Gaelic Leinster: The Extension of Tudor Rule in the O’Byrne and O’Toole Lordships. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005.

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———. “The Gaelic Peers, the Tudor Sovereigns, and English Multiple Monarchy.” The Journal of British Studies 50, 3 (2011), 566–86.

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Maley, Willy. Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.

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Mayes, Charles. “The Early Stuarts and the Irish Peerage.” English Historical Review 73, 287 (1958), 227–51.

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———. “The Sale of Peerages in Early Stuart England.” The Journal of Modern History 29, 1 (1957), 21–37.

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McCabe, Richard. Spenser’s Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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McCormack, Anthony. The Earldom of Desmond, 1463–1583: The Decline and Crisis of a Feudal Lordship. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005.

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McCorristine, Laurence. The Revolt of Silken Thomas: A Challenge to Henry VIII. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1987.

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McGowan-Doyle, Valerie. The Book of Howth: Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English. Cork: University of Cork Press, 2011.

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Mhac an tSaoi, Maire. Cerbh i Meg Russell? Dearcadh as Shaolre Phiarais Fheiriteir agus go hairithe ar an bpairt inti a bhi ag Richard Boyle, Iarla Chorcai. Galway: Leabhar Breac, 2008.

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Morgan, Hiram. Tyrone’s Rebellion: The Outbreak of the Nine Years’ War in Tudor Ireland. Dublin: Boydell, 1999.

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Natives and Newcomers: The Making of Irish Colonial Society, 1534–1641. Edited by Ciaran Brady and Raymond Gillespie. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1986.

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Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland. Edited by Michael Braddick and John Walter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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A New History of Ireland, vol. 3: Early Modern Ireland, 1534–1691. Edited by T. W. Moody, et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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O Buachalla, Breandan. Aisling Ghear: Na Stiobhartaigh agus an tAos Leinn, 1603–1778. Dublin: An Clochomhar, 1996.

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———. The Crown of Ireland. Galway: Arlen House, 2006.

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———. “James Our True King: The Ideology of Irish Royalism in the Seventeenth Century,” in Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century. Edited by D. G. Boyce. London: Routledge, 1998. 1-35.

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O’Byrne, Emmett. War, Politics and the Irish of Leinster. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.

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O Cuiv, Brian. The Irish Bardic Duanaire or Poem-Book. Dublin: Malton, 1973.

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O’Donnell, Manus. The Life of Colum Cille (1534). Edited and translated by Brian Lacy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998.

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Ohlmeyer, Jane. Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

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O’Meara, Dermot. The Tipperary Hero: Dermot O’Meara’s “Ormonius” (1615). Edited by David Edwards and Keith Sidwell. Trans. Keith Sidwell. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2012.

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O’Riordan, Michelle. The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World. Cork: Cork University Press, 1990.

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O Siochru, Micheal. God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.

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Palmer, Patricia. Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Pawlisch, Hans. Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture, c. 1550 – c. 1700. Edited by James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.

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Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541–1641. Edited by Hiram Morgan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.

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Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony? Edited by Jane Ohlmeyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621–1641. Edited by J. F. Merritt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Pope Hennessy, John. Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland (1883). Edited by Thomas Herron. Dublin: University College Press, 2009.

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Portraits and People: Art in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Peter Murray. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery, 2010.

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Power, Gerald. A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496–1566. Hanover, Germany: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2012.

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Quinn, David Beers. The Elizabethans and the Irish. Ithaca, New York: The Folger Library and Cornell University Press, 1966.

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Regions and Rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650. Edited by David Edwards. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004.

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Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534–1660. Edited by Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield, and Willy Maley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Samuel, Mark, and Kate Hamlyn. Blarney Castle: Its History, Development an Purpose. Cork: Cork University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture. Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

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Simms, Katherine. From Kings to Warlords: The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages. Dublin: Boydell, 2000.

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Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland and Wales. Edited by Thomas Herron and Willy Maley. Sidney Journal 29.1–2 (2011).

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The Spenser Encyclopedia. Edited by A. C. Hamilton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.

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Stanihurst, Richard. Aeneis (1582). Edited by Dirk van der Haar. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1933.

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Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

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Tait, Clodagh. Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550–1650. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Treadwell, Victor. Buckingham and Ireland, 1616–1628: A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998.

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Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840. Edited by Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie. Oxford: The British Academy and Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Walsh, Micheline Kerney. An Exile of Ireland: Hugh O’Neill, Prince of Ulster. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996.

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Williams, Nicholas. Armas: Sracfheacaint ar Araltas na hEireann. Dublin: Coisceim, 2001.

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