Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete ConquestIn 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal power. Only a small area around Dublin was directly administered by the crown. The rest of the island was run in more or less autonomous fashion by Anglo-Norman magnates or Gaelic chieftains. |
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Town and County in the English Part of Ireland c 1500 | 25 |
Society and Culture in Gaelic Ireland | 42 |
The Kildares and their Critics 150020 | 67 |
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