13 research outputs found
Mary Ann Lyons. Franco-Irish Relations, 1500–1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Volume 35.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press, for the Royal Historical Society. 2003. Pp. xiii, 242. $70.00. ISBN 0-86193-2668.
Robin Frame. Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369. (The Helicon History of Ireland) Dublin: Helicon Limited; distributed by Longwood Publishing Group, Inc., Dover, N. H. 1981. Pp. x, 149. 6.95 paper. - Art Cosgrove. Late Medieval Ireland 1370-1541. (The Helicon History of Ireland.) Dublin: Helicon Limited; distributed by Longwood Publishing Group, Inc., Dover, N. H. 1981. Pp. vii, 134, 6.95 paper. - Patrick J. Corish. The Catholic Community in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (The Helicon History of Ireland.) Dublin: Helicon Limited; distributed by Longwood Publishing Group, Inc., Dover, N. H. 1981. Pp. vii, 156. 6.95 paper.
Women of the wild geese: Irish women migrants in Spain, 1750-1775.
This single-authored article draws upon Irish and Spanish primary sources to show how first and second generation Irish women migrants, succeeded in assimilating in Spanish society in the mid-eighteenth century. The advancement of schools and hospitals is examined, alongside the women’s development of networks of power and influence. It examines women in the key towns of Madrid, Barcelona, Valladolid, Burgos, Santiago, Ferrol, Pontevedra, Seville and Cadiz. The study is a revised and extended version of an invited conference paper given at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance conference on ‘Borders and Frontiers in the Medieval and Early Modern World’ held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2002