Ireland's English Pale, 1470-1550: The Making of a Tudor Region

Challenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period.

A key argument of this book is that the English Pale — the four counties around Dublin under English control — was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, whereby "the four obedient shires" were protected by new fortifications and a newly—constituted English—style militia, which replaced the former system of exten...