The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

Queen Elizabeth’s bloody rule over Ireland is examined in this “ richly-textured, impressively researched and powerfully involving” history (Roy Foster, author of Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 ). England’s violent subjugation of Ireland in the sixteenth century under Queen Elizabeth I was one of the most consequential chapters in the long, tumultuous relationship between the two countries. In this engaging and scholarly history, James C. Roy tells the story of revolt, suppression, atrocities, and ge