THE OLD ENGLISH IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594–1603
RUTH A. CANNING Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783273270 Reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies Henry A. Jefferies is a research associate in history at Ulster University. Dr Canning uses the term ‘Old English’ explicitly to connote any descendants of English colonists who arrived in Ireland prior to 1541 (pp 2–3). She acknowledges that historians have ‘long … Read more
