Why the Reformation failed in Ireland: A Reconsideration from the Wild West (Professor Steven Ellis)

In this lecture Steven Ellis, Professor Emeritus of History, National University of Ireland, Galway, considers why the Reformation failed in Ireland. As a case study, the lecture focuses on the Reformation in Tudor Galway. Professor Ellis concludes that if Tudor reform had been introduced more sensitively and been consistently enforced, as it was in Galway, the overall outcome of the Reformation in Ireland might well have been different.
An authority on Tudor Ireland, Professor Ellis's publications include 'Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule' (1998).
Armagh Robinson Library is grateful to the Social Enterprise Academy and the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the support they provided for this lecture. The lecture is the second in a series of four lectures organised to mark the 250th anniversary of No 5 Vicars' Hill, Armagh, which was built by Archbishop Robinson in 1772 to house the records of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Armagh. The first lecture by Dr Katharine Simms (TCD), about the Medieval Archbishops of Armagh, can be viewed here: • The Medieval Archbisho...