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Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland

'Reform' treatises and political discourse

By David Heffernan

Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland
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  • Publish Date: Mar 2018
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    Ireland was conquered and gradually colonized by the Tudors during the sixteenth century. This much is clear but whether or not this was the actual goal of English policy in Ireland at that time has long been debated by historians. Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland examines a set of sources which provide a unique insight into English rule in Tudor Ireland. These are policy papers or treatises written at the time on how to 'reform' Ireland and bring it under greater crown control. The study constitutes the first systematic study of the approximately six-hundred such treatises to have survived. In doing so it sheds light on how the Tudors arrived at the policies they decided to implement in Ireland and examines how English officials and other parties within Ireland viewed the Irish and the country at that time.

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    'From 1485 to 1603, Ireland drew from the Tudor court myriad schemes embodied in "reform" treatises, but this comprehensive examination challenges previous assumptions of Tudor inconsistency. Heffernan (Queen's Univ., Belfast) believes that intentions to extend the Pale (English territory in Ireland) and royal authority at the expense of the Irish lords marked the treatises; however, the means by which this would be accomplished was heavily debated. The acts of Edward Poynings signaled the end of a lengthy period of the crown's neglect, but the Henrician policy of "surrender and regrant" in the wake of the unsuccessful Kildare Rebellion (1534-35) provided the stamp for future "reform" treatises. As Heffernan explains, the possession of the Tudor charter provided no security. Regional conquest and the extension of the Pale proceeded by fits and leaps. By mid-century, the forging of a network of garrisons and the implementation of the plantation system allowed further immigration from England, much of it Protestant, which challenged the authority and culture of the Gaelicized constituents of the Pale. The resultant Desmond Rebellions (1569-73; 1579-83), followed by the scorched-earth suppression, led to a plethora of treatises implicating militarization, but little change in policy. Subjugation and settlement remained the Tudor intent.'
    S. L. Smith, California State University, Fullerton, Choice
    Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals

    Contents

    Introduction: Debating Tudor policy in Ireland: The 'reform' treatises
    1. Conquest or conciliation? The policy debate in late Henrician Ireland, c.1515-1546
    2. 'Reform' treatises and the inception of the Tudor conquest in mid-sixteenth-century Ireland, 1546-1565
    3. Treatise writing and the expansion of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, 1565-1578
    4. Complaint, reform and conflict: Treatise writing in late Elizabethan Ireland, 1579-1594
    Conclusion
    Select bibliography of primary sources
    Index

    Author

    David Heffernan is an R. J. Hunter Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast

    Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland

    By David Heffernan

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