Power, Politics, and Personality in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: A Case Study of Christopher Nugent, Baron of Delvin
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Dr Ruth A. Canning is a Senior Lecturer in History and Liverpool Hope University. Prior to this, she held a three-year Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship at Concordia University in Montreal and University College Cork. A historian of early modern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations, Dr Canning’s research examines the socio-political impact of war on identity formation amongst Ireland's minority Old English population. She is the author of The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019) and has published widely on Ireland and the Old English during the late Elizabethan period.