Re-Forming Ireland, 1500-1700

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Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was radically transformed. Not only were the political structures and the political culture of resurgent Gaeldom destroyed. Religious loyalties consolidated new Irish identities as protestantism - in the form of new waves of settlers and new flurries of English governmental interventions - obliterated inherited distinctions and divisions and defined all Roman Catholics as the enemy.