The participants, whether archaeologists, historians or historical geographers, have now produced a stimulating collection of essays on the inter-related themes of land, lordship and settlement, that will become essential reading for anyone embarking on the study of any aspect of Gaelic society in the medieval and early modern periods. One of the aims of the 1999 conference hosted by the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, where versions of the papers published here were discussed, was to tease out the possibilities for future research using the widest possible range of extant sources. The sources from which the detailed workings of individual Gaelic lordships in the medieval period can be reconstructed pose both technical and methodological challenges to today’s researchers. The term has been devised by modern historians to signify collectively the numerous quasi-autonomous Gaelic and Gaelicised lordships that existed in medieval Ireland. In the period 1250 to 1650 covered by this book there was no single entity known as Gaelic Ireland. Published in Book Reviews, Gaelic Ireland, Issue 2 (Summer 2001), Reviews, Volume 9
Duffy, David Edwards & Elizabeth FitzPatrick (eds.). Gaelic Ireland: land, lordship and settlement, c.1250-c.1650, Patrick J.
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