This book offers an extended reinterpretation of English policy in
Ireland over the sixteenth century. It seeks to show that the major
conflicts between Tudor governors and native lords which
characterised the period were not the result of a deliberate Tudor
strategy of confrontation as conventional interpretations have
assumed, but argues that they arose from a failed experiment in
legal reform and cultural assimilation which had been applied with
remarkable success elsewhere in the Tudor dominions. The book seeks
to explain the course of this exceptional failure, and it
identifies a distinct administrative style which evolved in Irish
government during the middle of the century under a complex set of
pressures acting on the would-be reformers both in Ireland and at
the Tudor court. It argues that it was this distinctive, highly
centralised and intensely activist mode of government that
inadvertently undermined the aims of reform policy and provoked the
alienation and hostility that was precisely the opposite result to
that which was originally intended.
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