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William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State
Christopher Maginn
288 pages
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2 black and white maps, 2 black and white images
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234x156mm
978-0-19-969715-1
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Hardback
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15 March 2012
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- Offers comprehensive coverage of the entire Tudor period
- Based on an extensive exploitation of primary evidence
- Examines a seldom-explored aspect of Cecil's life and place in the Tudor age
William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State explores the complex relationship which existed between England and Ireland in the Tudor period, using the long association of William Cecil (1520-1598) with Ireland as a vehicle for historical enquiry. That Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor and the most important figure in England after the queen herself, consistently devoted his attention and considerable energies to the kingdom of Ireland is a seldom-explored aspect of his life and his place in the Tudor age. Yet amid his handling of a broad assortment of matters relating to England and Wales, the kingdom of Scotland, continental
Europe, and beyond, William Cecil's thoughts regularly turned to the kingdom of Ireland. He personally compiled genealogies of Ireland's Irish and English families and poured over dozens of national and regional maps of Ireland. Cecil served as chancellor of Ireland's first university and, most importantly for the historian, penned, received, and studied thousands of papers on subjects relating to Ireland and the crown's political, economic, social, and religious policies there. Cecil would have understood all of this broadly as 'Ireland matters', a subject which he came to know in greater depth and detail than anyone at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
Maginn's extended analysis of Cecil's long relationship with Ireland helps to make sense of Anglo-Irish interaction
in Tudor times, and shows that this relationship was characterized by more than the basic binary features of conquest and resistance. At another level, he demonstrates that the second half of the sixteenth century witnessed the political, social, and cultural integration of Ireland into the multinational Tudor state, and that it was William Cecil who, more than any other figure, consciously worked to achieve that integration.Readership: Academics and students interested in the Anglo-Irish relationship in the early modern period; general readers interested in a book about the man second only to Queen Elizabeth in importance to the development of the Tudor state in the second half of the sixteenth century.
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Christopher Maginn, Associate Professor of History, Fordam University, New York Dr Christopher Maginn received his PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published extensively on the history of early modern Ireland and Britain. He is currently Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York.
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"This careful study will become the last word on Elizabethan policy in Ireland." - D.R. Bisson, CHOICE
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Introduction
PART I: A DEEPENING ASSOCIATION
1: The Tudor Lordship of Ireland, 1520
2: The Tudor Kingdom of Ireland, 1550
PART II: IRELAND MATTERS
3: Correspondence and Points of Contact
4: Government and Policy
5: Money
6: The Irish
7: Religion
PART III: BURGHLEY'S IRELAND
8: The Kingdom of Ireland, 1598
9: 'A carefull father for this poore realm'
Conclusion: William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State
Bibliography
Index
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