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Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, 1573-6
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Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, 1573-6
About this book
Between 1573 and 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to colonize the north-east of the province of Ulster in Ireland. This 'enterprise', as Essex termed it, was undertaken with the aim of prising these lands away from the regionallordsand planting colonies of English settlers there. Essex's project ended infailure;notorious werethe atrocities perpetrated by his forces. When Essex died in 1576, his personal wealth had been decimated.Moreover, the patrimony of his son and heir had been considerably compromised.This book presents the first full account of Essex's 'enterprise'. In doing so it sheds light on the nature of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, and the limitations of the early modern state.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Note on conventions
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Ulster on the eve of Essex’s ‘Enterprise’
- 2. Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the ‘Enterprise’ of Ulster
- 3. Essex in Ulster, Sept. 1573–Jan. 1574
- 4. Renegotiating the ‘Enterprise’, Feb.–Apr. 1574
- 5. Return to Ulster and the Desmond interlude, Apr.–Sept. 1574
- 6. ‘An opinion for the government and reformation of Ulster’:Essex’s ‘Plat’, Oct. 1574–May 1575
- 7. Earl marshal of Ireland: the abandonment of the ‘Enterprise’and the death of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex,May 1575–Sept. 1576
- Conclusion: Essex’s ‘Enterprise’ in retrospect
- Bibliography
- Index