Desmond Keenan 
Ireland 1509 to 1603, Society and History 

This book presents a picture of Ireland in Tudor times, between 1509 and
1603 It deals with Europe in the sixteenth century, England, Irish Society,
and Irish history of that period. This enables the reader to place Tudor Ireland
in it proper context. The traditional distortions of nationalist propaganda are
weeded out.

About the author

The author was born in Northern Ireland,
studied economics and sociology at The
Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern
Ireland. He completed a doctoral thesis on
the Catholic Church in Ireland in the early
nineteenth century. During post-doctoral
research in the British Newspaper Library
in London (UK) he came to realise how
badly political propaganda had distorted the
writing of Irish history. In his books he uses
frameworks from archaeology, sociology
and economics to arrive at a balanced and
neutral perspective.