Spanish-Irish Relations through the Ages: New Historical Perspectives

This collection of essays, the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Spanish-Irish Relations, held in Salamanca in 2004, is representative of a whole new historiographical approach to and revision of the study of Irish history from Continental European sources (in this case Spanish sources) . The contributors provide new and exciting insights based on original source material, into the cultural, economic, diplomatic and political dimensions of the centuries-old relationships between Spain and Ireland. The chronological scope of this collection incorporates the medieval, early modern and modern/contemporary periods. Among the contributors are established scholars such as J.R. Seymour Phillips, Ciaran Brady, Michael Kennedy, Fearghal McGarry, Patricia O'Connell, Susannah Riordan, Ã?©?Ã?©?scarÃ?©?Ã?©?Recio Morales, Enrique GarcÃ?©?Ã?©­a HernÃ?©?Ã?©¡n and also emerging scholars of note such as Mark Empey, Igor PÃ?©?Ã?©rez Tostado and Diego Tellez AlarcÃ?©?Ã?©­a.