Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe)

Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe) by Connolly, S. J.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780199563715.

This definitive study of Irelands transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the countrys different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition. Charting its progression from a poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords, to a centralised political unit with a rapidly developing market economy, it is the long and complex story of the people who became the modern Irish.