‘A mere Irish man, but good Protestant’: Sir Francis Shane, 1540–1614

An assessment of the character and career of an atypical advocate of English rule in late Tudor and early Stuart Ireland By Joseph Mannion Intriguingly described by seventeenth-century churchman and historian Thomas Fuller as ‘a mere [pure] Irish man, but good Protestant’, Sir Francis Shane’s life and career in late Tudor and early Stuart Ireland ... Read more

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