Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion.(Brief Article)

The Modern Language Review | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion. By PATRICIA PALMER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+254 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-79318-1.

How legitimate is it to study early modern Ireland without a knowledge of Irish or reference to an Irish-speaking culture? What were the interactions between the dominant, invading English culture and the Irish-speaking culture the colonists encountered and displaced? On a more mundane level, how much ...

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