Unit 8: The Tudor Conquest

This is what's left of Dun an Oir. The English massacred the Irish (assisted by the Spanish) after they had surrendered. Read more at http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/ballyferriter/bf-history.html

Readings and Activities

• Read Moody, chapter 11, pages 139-151
• Read Titley, Cultural Planning (59-63)
• Read Dunne, Terra Incognita (196-199), Battle of Kinsale (199-201), A Dialogue of Irenius and Eudoxus (7-10)
• Retrieve and read the following article from UMD’s electronic database:
  Chambers, Anne. Ireland’s Pirate Queen. World of Hibernia, vol. 4,
  no. 4 (Spring 1999), page 110.
• Consult the following helpful web sites:
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/iremaps.htm
  http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/ballyferriter/bf-history.html

Assignments

1. Although there is no project deadline due this week, it's been two weeks since your last project meeting, and the next deadline is in two weeks. The project should be at least one-third complete by that time.
2. Why was it imperative for the Tudors to conquer and rule Ireland?
3. Who were the English rebels and Irish enemies? What made them different from one another? What united them?
4. Describe plantation and what the English crown hoped it would accomplish.
5. Describe the changes the Tudor monarchs made in Ireland in the 16th century.
6. What constituted the "anglicization of Ireland?"
7. What did Hugh O'Neill hope to accomplish? What happened at the Battle of Kinsale?
8. Where and how does "Ireland's Pirate Queen" fit into the history of the Tudor conquest of Ireland?