Table of Contents

1. Elizabeth I and Ireland: an introduction Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle; 2. Ireland's Eliza: Queen or Cailleach? Richard A. McCabe; 3. Elizabeth on Ireland Leah S. Marcus; 4. A bardic critique of queen and court: 'Ionmholta Malairt Bhisigh', Eochaidh Ó hEodhasa, 1603 Peter McQuillan; 5. Recognizing Elizabeth I: grafting, sovereignty, and the logic of icons in an instance of bardic poetry B. R. Siegfried; 6. Coming into the weigh-house: Elizabeth I and the government of Ireland Ciaran Brady; 7. An Irish perspective on Elizabeth's religion: reformation thought and Henry Sidney's Irish lord deputyship, c.1560 to 1580 Mark A. Hutchinson; 8. Elizabeth I, the Old English and the rhetoric of counsel Valerie McGowan-Doyle; 9. 'Base rogues' and 'gentlemen of quality': the earl of Essex's Irish knights and royal displeasure in 1599, Paul E. J. Hammer; 10. 'Tempt not God too long, O Queen': Elizabeth and the Irish Crisis of the 1590s Hiram Morgan; 11. War poetry and counsel in early modern Ireland Andrew Hadfield; 12. Elizabeth on rebellion in Ireland and England: semper eadem? Brendan Kane; 13. Print, Protestantism and cultural authority in Elizabethan Ireland Marc Caball; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

The first sustained consideration of the roles played by Elizabeth and by the Irish in shaping relations between the realms.

About the Author

Brendan Kane is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Valerie McGowan-Doyle is Associate Professor of History at Lorain County Community College.

Reviews

'Elizabeth I and Ireland is an expansive and inclusive take on what is thorny subject matter. It is to be commended for its variety of approaches which, taken overall, highlight the multifaceted complexities of the engagement between Tudor governance and sixteenth-century Ireland.' Patrick Murray, Irish Studies Review

'This cohesive collection of essays provides an excellent distillation of recent cross-disciplinary research on Elizabethan Ireland. It should be of particular benefit to scholars of early modern England and Europe in illustrating that England was but one unit of multiple kingdom governed from London, and that the Crown's involvement with Ireland is vital to understanding how the British state came into being.' Nicholas Canny, Renaissance Quarterly

'This volume of essays, edited by Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle, originated in a multidisciplinary conference held at the University of Connecticut in 2009. The justification for the volume, so the editors claim, is that recent work on Elizabeth had largely failed to consider Ireland.' Steven G. Ellis, The English Historical Review