IRELAND’S ENGLISH PALE, 1470–1550: the making of a Tudor region

STEVEN ELLIS Boydell £75 ISBN 9781783276608 Reviewed by Ruth Canning Ruth Canning is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University. Ireland’s English Pale is a region frequently discussed but very rarely defined. James Lydon’s 1967 article, ‘The problem of the frontier in medieval Ireland’, had, it seemed, settled the issue for many ... Read more

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