Table of Contents:
  • Maynooth Historical Studies
  • Medieval legacy: the earls of Kildare on a Gaelic borderland
  • The power of the earls of Kildare: problems and opportunities, 1530-60
  • The survival of feudalism and the restoration of coign and livery
  • Faction: Kildare and Shane O'Neill
  • Service in the interest of control: the Arnold interlude, 1562-6
  • The rewards of service: the Sidney alliance, 1566-71
  • A prisoner in the tower: compromised by a dirty war, 1571-8
  • 'An Irishman can have no right or justice': the Pale rebellion and the conflict of colonial elites, 1578-83
  • Transfer of Kildare lands in Leinster, 1540-70
  • Descendants of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth earl of Kildare
  • The 'wizard' earl's descendants.