‘NO MEAN DIPLOMAT’: THE GIFT EXCHANGE PRACTICES OF SHANE O’NEILL, A RENAISSANCE GAELIC LORD

By Melissa Sheils ‘Although he is savage in his hair, … [Shane] does not seem to me that he is savage in his brain.’ These words, written by Álvaro de Quadra, the Spanish ambassador at the English court, provide a contemporary account of Shane O’Neill as a political actor who was less barbaric and more ... Read more

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