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Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland - The English of Louth and Their Neighbours, 1330-1450 (Hardcover)
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Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland - The English of Louth and Their Neighbours, 1330-1450 (Hardcover)
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Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the
ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish
landscape. Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland: The
English of Louth and their Neighbours, 1330-1450 examines how the
society that produced these monuments developed over the course of
a turbulent century, focussing particularly on county Louth,
situated on the coast north of Dublin and adjacent to the earldom
of Ulster. Louth was one of the areas that had been most densely
colonised by English settlers in the decades around 1200, and ties
with England and loyalty to the English crown remained strong. Its
settlers found it possible to maintain close economic and political
ties with England in part because of their proximity to the
significant trading port of Drogheda, and the residence among them
of the archbishop of Armagh, primate of Ireland, also extended
their international horizons and contacts. In this volume, Brendan
Smith explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth
maintained their English identity in the face of plague and
warfare. The Black Death of 1348-9, and recurrent visitations of
plague thereafter, reduced their numbers significantly and
encouraged the Irish lordships on their borders to challenge their
local supremacy. How to counter the threat from the MacMahons,
O'Neills, and others, absorbed their energies and resources. It not
only involved mounting armed campaigns, taking hostages, and
building defences; it also meant intermarrying with these families
and entering into numerous solemn, if short-lived, treaties with
them. Smith draws on original source material, to present a picture
of the English settlers in Louth, and to show how living in the
borderlands of the English world coloured every aspect of settler
life.
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