From the year 1600 Dublin City, for so long cramped behind its medieval walls and towers, began to grow and transform, to expand, and to evolve through two centuries of sustained development into a 'splendid and luxurious ...

This thesis offers a reappraisal of noble power and political culture in the English colony in Ireland in the late middle ages. It seeks to move beyond narrowly-conceived studies of the colony?s chief governors and ...

This thesis explores methods employed by the Dublin administration during the long thirteenth century in its efforts to manage the colonial frontiers and to minimise their impingement on government activities and finances. ...

This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ...