BOOKWORM
By Daragh Fitzgerald Alan Kelly’s The struggle for mastery in Ireland, 1442–1540: culture, politics and Kildare–Ormond rivalry documents the tussle for dominance of the English colony in Ireland between the leading magnate families at the time, the Fitzgeralds of Kildare and the Butlers of Ormond. These two leading houses of the old colonial community sustained … Read more