Beyond the Pale and Highland line : the Irish and Scottish Gaelic world / edited by Simon Egan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Egan, Simon, editor.

Series:

Studies in early modern Irish history.

Studies in Early Modern Irish History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Highlands (Scotland)--History.

Highlands (Scotland).

Ireland--History--17th century.

Ireland.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Simon Egan is Lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen's University Belfast

Summary:

This book explores how events within the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland shaped the affairs of the wider Irish and British Isles during the later medieval and early modern periods.

Contents:

Introduction: Beyond the Pale and Highland Line / Simon Egan

1. The Age of the Gonna Cam : Clann Chaimbeul and Ireland, c.1490-c.1556 / Simon Egan

2. The Sacking of Rathlin, 1557: English sovereignty in Ireland, the Meic Domhnaill, and the Anglo-Scottish Wars / David Edwards

3. The Gaelic lordship of west Bréifne: A strategic conundrum of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland / Francis Kelly

4. The Gàidhealtachd , the Gordon earls, and the Scottish crown, c. 1450–1600 / Arkady Hodge

5. Gaelic Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages / Martin MacGregor

6. ' An Enduring Grudge, A Steadfast Heart and A Mettlesome Mind ': Militarism and the Chiefly Ethos in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Gaelic Poetry / Craig Conner

7. Sex and Subversion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Gaelic Verse: Finding fresh perspectives on the poem 'Éistibh a lucht an tigh-se' in the Book of the Dean of Lismore / Georgina Lee Farron

8. What the Dean left out: Scottish poems which have not been included in the Book of the Dean of Lismore / Katharine Simms

9. Cultural and political identity in the hagiography of Gaelic Ireland / Courtney Selvage

10. Silencing Irish Ulster: Official depictions of plantation-era Ulster during the reign of James I, c. 1608–25 / David Heffernan

11. 'Mere Irish' in Ireland's parliaments and towns, 1316–1659

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed 8 May 2025.

ISBN:

9781526178428

1526178427

9781526178404

1526178400

OCLC:

1515459858