R. Dudley Edwards (1909–1988)
Auteur de The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845-52
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de R. Dudley Edwards
Ireland in the Age of the Tudors: The Destruction of Hiberno-Norman Civilization (1977) 13 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Edwards, Robert Walter Dudley
- Date de naissance
- 1909-06-04
- Date de décès
- 1988-06-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- Dublin, Ireland
- Études
- University College Dublin
Catholic University School
St Enda's School - Professions
- historian
- Relations
- Edwards, Ruth Dudley (daughter)
Edwards, Owen Dudley (son)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 66
- Popularité
- #259,059
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 1
This is essentially a narrative survey, based on exhaustive sampling of the surviving primary sources, of what happened politically in Ireland from the death of the seventh Earl of Kildare in 1513 to the Flight of the Earls in 1607. I am still getting my head around the various shifts in religious policy, particularly during the reign of Elizabeth I, but this gives a good skeleton on which to hang the meat of any future work I do.
I was less convinced by Dudley Edwards' subtitle, 'The Destruction of Hiberno-Norman Civilisation'. It is beyond dispute that in so far as there was such a thing, this period saw its destruction, but he doesn't really illustrate why or what Hiberno-Norman civilisation actually was. It would be more accurate to describe the book as tracking the growth of colonialism as the active British policy in Ireland, which it does very well.… (plus d'informations)