T.W. Moody - A New History of Ireland, Vol. 3: Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691

A NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY PLANNED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE T. W. MOODY

BOARD OF EDITORS

F. J. BYRNE W. E. VAUGHAN

ART COSGROVE J. R. HILL

DIBH CRINN

III

EARLY MODERN IRELAND

1534-1691

A NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY PLANNED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE T. W. MOODY

III
EARLY MODERN IRELAND
1534-1691

EDITED BY
T. W. MOODY
F. X. MARTIN
F. J. BYRNE

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WHEN this volume was reprinted in 1978, the opportunity was taken to introduce many amendments of detail and to correct a number of minor errors, nearly all of which were typographical, without substantial rewriting. The same course has been followed with the present reprint. This is a third impression, and not a second edition.

Many small changes, however, have been made, and many of these are the result of developments in the New history, notably the expansion of the project from nine volumes to ten and the publication of three further volumes of text and two of reference material. It has been possible to give precise footnote references to work published in volumes II and IV, to check dates of events against the chronology in volume VIII, and to correct lines of descent and periods of office against the genealogical tables and succession lists in volume IX. In the numbering of the earls of Desmond, for example, the more comprehensive system developed for volume ix has been applied here. In the reference volumes we refined our practice with regard to proper names, and those two volumes should be regarded as our standard in all questions of the forms of names. To apply that standard thoroughly to this reprint, however, would have necessitated many changes more troublesome than useful. Changes have been made where practicable, but some discrepancies persist: the catholic archbishop of Cashel for 1567-78 who appears as Maurice MacGibbon in volume IX, p. 355, remains Maurice Fitzgibbon here. A few aspects of our general plan have been changed since 1976. There is no chapter on legal developments in volume iv, and the final reference volume will not contain the large general bibliography and text appendices that were originally planned. We have dealt, where practicable within the limits of our brief, with criticisms from reviews of the first impression; but no major revision has been attempted.

Even at the appearance of the first impression, however, much new research on early modern Ireland was in progress, and the value of this reprint would be severely limited without some account being taken of the progress of scholarship since 1976. We are grateful, therefore, to the Delegates of Oxford University Press for permitting, and to Aidan Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, and James McGuire for compiling, an extended bibliographical supplement, which can be obtained separately by those who have already purchased earlier impressions.

In taking final stock of events since 1976, we record with great sorrow the deaths of Gerald Simms (9 April 1979), Michael Dolley (29 March 1983), Alan Bliss (24 November 1985), and R. Dudley Edwards (5 June 1988); and of T. W. Moody (11 February 1984).

F. X. MARTIN

F. J. BYRNE

W. E. VAUGHAN

ART COSGROVE

J. R. HILL

Royal Irish Academy

30 March 1989

THIS is the first volume to be published of a cooperative history of Ireland in nine volumes, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. The idea of such a history was initiated in 1962, a plan was drawn up in 1968, and the work is being carried out in accordance with that plan as expanded and amended. A full account of the project as a whole will appear in volume 1.

That volume 111 is appearing first is due to factors beyond our control: several scholars who originally engaged to write important sections of volumes 1 and 11 withdrewsome of them very late in the dayand had to be replaced. Progress has also been retarded by illness and overwork. But we are confident that volumes 1 and 11 will be ready for the printer before the end of 1976; volumes IV-VII should therefore appear in their proper order. Of the two reference volumes (VIII and IX) the first is due to be published in 1977; it includes a chronology, maps, and succession lists, referable to the entire history. The second reference volume will appear last; some of its components will be addenda and corrigenda that can be compiled only when all the rest of the history is in print. These two volumes will together form a companion to the whole work.