What can the experience of one family tell us about authority in early modern Ireland? Quite a bit! John will discuss how the many wives, many children and many subsequent problems of the earls of Clannrickard illustrate the complexity of authority in early modern Irish society.
Podcaster: John _______________________________________ Further Reading Steven Ellis. Ireland in the Age of the Tudors. London: Longman, 1998. Colm Lennon. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. Gill and Macmillan, 2005.
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Music by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
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