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  • 34 - The book in Ireland from the Tudor re-conquest to the battle of the Boyne

  • from BEYOND LONDON: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, RECEPTION
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 701-718

  • Summary

    Sixteenth century Ireland became a kingdom under Henry VIII as part of a renewed attempt to bring Ireland under more complete and extensive British governance. The printed book was one of the major instruments in the furtherance of the Reformation: people were encouraged to read the Bible for themselves and there flowed from the new presses all over Protestant Europe works of theology, philosophy, and biblical exegesis. The writings and activities of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, offer an insight into the frame of mind that was predominant in Anglo-Ireland during and following the Tudor re-conquest. In Ireland and elsewhere manuscript tradition survived into the seventeenth century and beyond. Although the Tudor re-conquest and its devastating conclusion in the Battle of Kinsale and the Flight of the Earls meant the beginning of the end of the Gaelic order, native learning nevertheless persisted on a number of fronts.