Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.
Court, castle and country / Ciaran Brady -- The Protestant Reformation in Ireland / Alan Ford -- The Counter-Reformation in Ireland, 1542-1641 / Colm Lennon -- Irish towns in a period of change, 1558-1625 / Anthony Sheehan -- Gaelic economy and society / Mary O'Dowd -- Native culture and political change in Ireland, 1580-1640 / Bernadette Cunningham -- The English presence in early seventeenth century Munster / Michael McCarthy Morrogh -- The end of an era / Raymond Gillespie