1. Elizabeth I and Ireland: an introduction Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle 2. Ireland's Eliza: Queen or Cailleach? Richard A. McCabe 3. Elizabeth on Ireland Leah S. Marcus 4. A bardic critique of queen and court: 'Ionmholta Malairt Bhisigh', Eochaidh O hEodhasa, 1603 Peter McQuillan 5. Recognizing Elizabeth I: grafting, sovereignty, and the logic of icons in an instance of bardic poetry B. R. Siegfried 6. Coming into the weigh-house: Elizabeth I and the government of Ireland Ciaran Brady 7. An Irish perspective on Elizabeth's religion: reformation thought and Henry Sidney's Irish lord deputyship, c.1560 to 1580 Mark A. Hutchinson 8. Elizabeth I, the Old English and the rhetoric of counsel Valerie McGowan-Doyle 9. 'Base rogues' and 'gentlemen of quality': the earl of Essex's Irish knights and royal displeasure in 1599, Paul E. J. Hammer 10. 'Tempt not God too long, O Queen': Elizabeth and the Irish Crisis of the 1590s Hiram Morgan 11. War poetry and counsel in early modern Ireland Andrew Hadfield 12. Elizabeth on rebellion in Ireland and England: semper eadem? Brendan Kane 13. Print, Protestantism and cultural authority in Elizabethan Ireland Marc Caball Bibliography Index.
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