Ellis sticks to his original conclusion, that the "surrender and regrant" policy probably could have worked given time, but Henry VIII lost interest, and from then on the question became one of how much money and how many soldiers to throw at the Irish wars. (In the course of the 1590s, for instance, 3% of the total population of Wales had been conscripted to fight in Ireland.) Lots more interesting background also on the perpetual lack of money of the Irish government institutions, and on the court system (though that was not quite as clear as I needed it to be), and many more tips for future and wider reading.
October Books 3) Ireland in the Age of the Tudors 1447-1603, by Stephen G. Ellis
Ellis sticks to his original conclusion, that the "surrender and regrant" policy probably could have worked given time, but Henry VIII lost interest, and from then on the question became one of how much money and how many soldiers to throw at the Irish wars. (In the course of the 1590s, for instance, 3% of the total population of Wales had been conscripted to fight in Ireland.) Lots more interesting background also on the perpetual lack of money of the Irish government institutions, and on the court system (though that was not quite as clear as I needed it to be), and many more tips for future and wider reading.
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