Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641

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Cambridge University Press, 1985 - History - 236 pages
The Tudor revival of government and administration in Ireland dramatically increased the quantity of written sources concerning Ireland. This book attempts to survey this documentary material. It analyses of the written sources for early modern Irish history for the period 1534-1641. It discusses the different types of sources available and also provides descriptions of transcripts, copies and summaries of manuscript material which has been destroyed. This is very valuable, because much of the original documentation for this period was destroyed when the Public Record Office in Dublin was burnt, at the beginning of the civil war in 1922. The final chapter in the book includes an assessment of the historiography of early modern Irish history. In the light of the need for historians to understand the administrative machinery which produced the documents they use, the book also includes an account of the civil and ecclesiastical administration of early modern Ireland.
 

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IRISH CIVIL CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION
3
CHIEF GOVERNORS AND OFFICEHOLDERS
4
COUNCIL
12
SEALS CHANCERY AND EXCHEQUER
16
COURTS CENTRAL
23
COURTS PREROGATIVE
30
PARLIAMENT
32
EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSIONS
39
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
75
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
76
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS AND DESCRIPTIONS
83
CONTEMPORARY ANGLOIRISH AND ENGLISH COMMENTARIES AND ACCOUNTS OF IRELAND
85
MAPS AND DRAWINGS
106
DRAWINGS
125
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
129
STATE ARCHIVES
130

IRISH CIVIL LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
42
PROVINCIAL
43
NONPROVINCIAL UNITS
46
ENGLISH AND OTHER CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION AND IRELAND
52
OTHER CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONS AND IRELAND
58
IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL ADMINISTRATION AND IRELAND
60
BEFORE THE BREACH
61
CHURCH OF IRELAND
64
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND
141
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN BRITAIN
151
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OUTSIDE IRELAND AND BRITAIN
159
NONPUBLIC ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
160
DISPERSED COLLECTIONS
164
HISTORIOGRAPHY
167
INDEX
214
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