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William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Hardcover)
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William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Hardcover)
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William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State explores the complex
relationship which existed between England and Ireland in the Tudor
period, using the long association of William Cecil (1520-1598)
with Ireland as a vehicle for historical enquiry. That Cecil, Queen
Elizabeth's most trusted advisor and the most important figure in
England after the queen herself, consistently devoted his attention
and considerable energies to the kingdom of Ireland is a
seldom-explored aspect of his life and his place in the Tudor age.
Yet amid his handling of a broad assortment of matters relating to
England and Wales, the kingdom of Scotland, continental Europe, and
beyond, William Cecil's thoughts regularly turned to the kingdom of
Ireland. He personally compiled genealogies of Ireland's Irish and
English families and poured over dozens of national and regional
maps of Ireland. Cecil served as chancellor of Ireland's first
university and, most importantly for the historian, penned,
received, and studied thousands of papers on subjects relating to
Ireland and the crown's political, economic, social, and religious
policies there. Cecil would have understood all of this broadly as
'Ireland matters', a subject which he came to know in greater depth
and detail than anyone at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Maginn's
extended analysis of Cecil's long relationship with Ireland helps
to make sense of Anglo-Irish interaction in Tudor times, and shows
that this relationship was characterized by more than the basic
binary features of conquest and resistance. At another level, he
demonstrates that the second half of the sixteenth century
witnessed the political, social, and cultural integration of
Ireland into the multinational Tudor state, and that it was William
Cecil who, more than any other figure, consciously worked to
achieve that integration.
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