First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 1513. Beginning with the OBrien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald the Great Earl of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the Tudor Reconquest) became imminent.

This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.