Castles and Colonists: An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

Eric Klingelhofer

doi:10.7765/9781847793195

This book examines life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. It shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish ‘savages’ were ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles. The book displays how a generation of English ‘adventurers’ including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Ralegh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity to their Renaissance tastes and ambitions. Based on decades of research, it details how archaeology had revealed the traces of a short-lived, but significant, culture that has, until now, been eclipsed in ideological conflicts between Tudor queens, Hapsburg hegemony and native Irish traditions.

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An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Epigraph
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of figures
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-4

1 - Archaeology and Elizabeth’s empire
pp 5-33

2 - Elizabethan fortifications in Ireland
pp 34-60

3 - Colonial settlement
pp 61-85

4 - Vernacular architecture
pp 86-108

5 - The archaeology of Kilcolman Castle
pp 109-131

6 - Spenserian architecture in Ireland
pp 132-160

7 - Conclusions
pp 161-166

Select bibliography
pp 167-173

Index
pp 174-176

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