Review from previous edition Volume Three of A New History of Ireland has succeeded in its aim of elucidating in an authoritative and up-to-date manner the history of an important phase of Irish development.'

• Introduction ; 1. Ireland in 1534 ; 2. The Royal Supremacy and Ecclesiastical Revolution 1534-47 ; 3. Conciliation, Coercion, and the Protestant Reformation 1547-71 ; 4. The Completion of the Tudor Conquest and the Advance of the Counter-Reformation 1571-1603 ; 5. Land and People c.1600 ; 6. The Irish Economy 1600-6- ; 7. Pacification, Plantation, and the Catholic Question 1603-23 ; 8. Selling Royal Favours 1624-32 ; 9. The Government of Wentworth 1632-40 ; 10. The Breakdown of Authority 1640-41 ; 11. The Rising of 1641 and the Catholic Confederacy 1641-5 ; 12. Ormond, Rinuccini, and the Confederates 1645-9 ; 13. The Cromwellian Conquest 1649-53 ; 14. The Cromwellian Regime 1650-60 ; 15. Economic Trends 1660-91 ; 16. The Irish Coinage 1534-1691 ; 17. The Restoration 1660-85 ; 18. Land and People c.1685 ; 19. The War of the Two Kings 1685-91 ; 20. The Irish Language in the Early Modern Period ; 21. The English Language in Early Modern Ireland ; 22. Irish Literature in Latin 1550-1700 ; 23. The Irish Abroad 1534-1691