Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 1 (of 3), 1603-1642

The volume traces early Stuart rule in Ireland by combining political narrative with documentary analysis: it follows administrative measures, efforts to impose religious uniformity and laws against recusancy, the departure of leading Gaelic lords and the subsequent colonization of Ulster, local rebellions and military responses, and contentious parliamentary elections and commissions. Chapters interweave descriptions of land surveys, plantation policy, legal mandates, and turf-level social effects, relying on state papers, tracts, and maps to show how governance, settlement, and religious disputes reshaped authority and society and set the scene for later wider conflicts.