History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals)

<p>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.</p><p>This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.</p>