COLONY & FRONTIER IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND Essays Presented to J.F.Lydon [Hardcover]

These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society. They deal both with the foundation and expansion of the English lordship in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and with the problems sand adjustments that accompaneid its contraction in the later middle ages. Attention is paid both to the government and society of the colony itself, and to the interactions between settler and native.

Sean Duffy the first Ulster Plantation: John de Courcy and the Men of Cumbria; Brendan Smith Tenure and Locality in North Leinster in the Early Thirteenth Century; Margaret Murphy The Archbishops of Dublin, 1181-1228; Philomena Connolly The Proceedings against John de Burnham, Treasurer of Ireland, 1343-49; Bernadette Williams The Kilkenny Chronicle; Dorothy Johnston Chief Governors and treasurers of Ireland in the Reign of Richard II; Helen Perros Crossing the Shannon Frontier: Connacht, 1170-1240; Ciaran Parker The Internal Frontier: The Irish in County Waterford in the Later Middle Ages; Robin Frame Two Kings in Leinster; Katharine Simms Frontiers in the Irish Church - Regional and Cultural; T.B. Barry 'The Last Frontier': The Settlement History of Late Medieval Ireland; Christine E. Meek Irishmen in Lucca; P.W. Asplin Bibliography of Works by J.F. Lydon; Index.