Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3)
CHAPTER IX.
FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE YEAR 1534.
The Kildare family in power 124-128 The Ormonde family much reduced 125 Viceroyalty of Surrey 128-139 The Pale a very small district 129 Misery of the country 131 O'Donnell and O'Neill 132 Desmond and the MacCarthies 133 Policy of Henry VIII. 134 Unsteadiness of English policy 136 The Irish constantly at war 140 The Butlers and Geraldines were scarcely more peaceable 145 Wolsey's policy 148 A Viceroy captured by the Irish 150 The rivalry between Ormonde and Kildare 149-152 Skeffington Viceroy 152 Overshadowed by Kildare 154 Results of the Kildare power 154-158 Fall of Kildare 161