A History of Medieval Ireland: From 1086 to 1513

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First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 - 1513. Beginning with the O'Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald 'the Great Earl' of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the 'Tudor Reconquest') became imminent. This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century. Cover A History of Medieval Ireland Copyright Page PREFACE Table of Contents ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. THE O'BRIEN HIGH KINGSHIP, 1014-1119 CHAPTER II. TURLOCH O'CONNOR AND THE PRELUDE TO THE NORMAN INVASION CHAPTER III. THE NORMAN INVASION, 1166-1172 CHAPTER IV. THE CONQUEST CONTINUED, 1172-1177 CHAPTER V. JOHN, 'DOMINUS HIBERNIAE', 1177-1199 CHAPTER VI. KING JOHN AND IRELAND, 1199-1216 CHAPTER VII. THE EXPANSION OF THE COLONY, 1216-1245 CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST IRISH RESURGENCE, 1245-1272 CHAPTER IX. THE ENGLISH LORDSHIP AT ITS HEIGHT, 1272-1310 CHAPTER X. EDWARD II AND EDWARD BRUCE, 1307-1327 CHAPTER XI. THE REBELLIOUS ANGLO-IRISH, 1327-1360 CHAPTER XII. THE STATUTES OF KILKENNY AND THE GAELIC REVIVAL CHAPTER XIII. THE FAILURE OF THE 'FIRST CONQUEST', 1366-1399 CHAPTER XIV. IRELAND, FEUDAL AND GAELIC, 1399-1447 CHAPTER XV. ARISTOCRATIC HOME RULE, 1449-1477 CHAPTER XVI. THE GREAT EARL OF KILDARE, 1477-1513 CONCLUSION: IRELAND IN 1170 AND IN 1500 APPENDIX I. PEDIGREES OF CHIEF FAMILIES IN THIS PERIOD(A) NORMAN LORDS; (B) GAELIC CHIEFS APPENDIX II. THE OSTMEN AFTER 1172 APPENDIX III. THE TOWNS OF IRELAND APPENDIX IV. THE LEGAL TREATMENT OF THE IRISH (A) UP TO 1366; (B) AFTER 1366 INDEX