Anglicizing Tudor Connacht: The expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Clanrickard was ruled by the Burke dynasty, descendants of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman conquerors and colonists of Connacht, while Hy Many was governed by the indigenous Gaelic Irish O’ Kelly lords.

The author charts the episodic expansion of English rule into the lordships, while taking cognizance of major government initiatives...