The Making of Ireland by James Lydon provides an accessible history of Ireland from the earliest times.

This volume brings together twenty classic essays by three of the greatest historians of later medieval Ireland: Edmund Curtis (d. 1943), Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven (d. 1989) and James Lydon.

With the rule of law breaking down in Ireland rapid legislation to deal with the problem was necessary.

This is the sixth volume in the comprehensive 11 volume "Gill History of Ireland," which covers Irish history from the fifth century to the 1960s.