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Early modern Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Donal F. Cregan
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The publication of the first volume of A new history of Ireland to be issued from the press (volume iii of a set of nine volumes) is an event of the utmost significance in Irish historiography. It is the first-fruit of an ambitious proposal originally given an airing by Professor T. W. Moody in his presidential address to the Irish Historical Society in December 1962 and since pursued by him, through protracted discussions and negotiations, with rare tenacity, skill and devotion. In a longer perspective it is the culmination of forty years of sustained historical endeavour, which in its beginnings saw the foundation in 1936 of the Ulster Society for lrish Historical Studies and of the Irish Historical Society, and the first publication in 1938 of Irish Historical Studies, the journal sponsored by both societies, of which Professor Moody has since been joint editor.

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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 79 , March 1977 , pp. 272 - 285
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1977

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1 A New History Of Ireland. Edited by T. W Moody, F X. Martin, and F J. Byrne, Vol. iii : Early Modern Ireland, I534–1691 Pp Ixiii, 736. Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1976. £17,00.

2 Belatedly in comparison with England and irrespective of whether one agrees with DrBarnard, T.G. (‘The Hartlib circle and the origins of the Dublin Philosophical Society’ in I.H.S., 19, no. 93 (Mar. 1974) pp 56–71)Google Scholar or with Dr K.T. Hoppen’s reply (I.H.S., xx, no. 77 (Mar. 1976) pp 40–8) as to the significanit decade for the origins of scientific interests in Ireland.

3 notice that among some omissions from the bibliography are the published descriptions of two mid-seventeenth century observers of Irish life and customs, the Frenchman, de la Boullaye le Gouz and the Italian, Dionisio Massari.

4 Hoskins, WG., The age of plunder: the England of Henry VIII, 1500–1547 (London, 1976), p. vii.Google Scholar

5 A recent paper by Ellis, S.G., ‘The Kildare rebellion and the early Henrician reformation’ (Hist. Jn., 19, no. 4 (1976), pp 807–30),CrossRefGoogle Scholar tends to support Professor Edwards’s view that the politicali counter-reformation began at the same time as the introduction of the reformation.

6 Barnard, T.G., Cromwellian Ireland: English government and reform in Ireland 1640–1660 (Oxford University Press, 1975).Google Scholar