This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It moves from the political, religious and military turmoil of

This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.

A groundbreaking interpretation. In Ireland, the seventeenth century was a war zone, but it was also about politics, about wheeling and dealing. In the end, pol

Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Le

A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality. After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated