Making Ireland English

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Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2012 for subcategory United Kingdom within the Social and Behavioral Sciences category.

'In Making Ireland English, Jane Ohlmeyer breathes life into the variegated group who were included within the ranks of Ireland's nobility during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She displays great erudition, proceeds at a cracking pace on a broad canvas, and frequently surprises with arresting nuggets, in particular detailing how those who would ostensibly be the prime upholders of Church of Ireland Protestantism offered tacit tolerance of Catholic practice when this was the religion favoured by themselves or their kin.' - Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway

'This is the most important single contribution to the study of the early modern British noble elite since Lawrence Stone's The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641, published almost half a century ago. It transforms both our knowledge of Ireland's new aristocracy and our understanding of the extension of London's control during the seventeenth century, with its profound implications for later Irish and British history.' - Hamish Scott, University of St Andrews