Product Description: Rome was the destination of a significant number of Irish migrants in the early 17th century, including Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone. This collection, the 4th in the Irish in Europe Series and the fruit of the 2007 conference hosted by the Irish College, Rome, looks at the factors pushing them abroad and attracting them to Rome...read more

Product Description: Based on a lecture by poet Seamus Heaney

Product Description: The period 1500 to 1610 witnessed a fundamental transformation in the nature of Franco-Irish relations. In 1500 contact was exclusively based on trade and small-scale migration. However, from the early 1520s to the early 1580s, the dynamics of 'normal' relations were significantly altered as unprecedented political contacts between Ireland and France were cultivated...read more

Product Description: The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594-1603, marked a turning point in European and Irish history. Although the political power of the Gaelic nobility was broken and royal authority in the kingdom was enhanced, Ireland remained strategically important for other European powers, especially Spain and France...read more

Product Description: In the era of the political ascendancy of Garret Mor and Garret Oge Fitzgerald, eighth and ninth earls of Kildare, the society of country Kildare was dominated by the Geraldines. This book investigates the socio-economic, ecclesiastical and cultural world, which they created. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)