An outstanding piece of local history based upon extensive archival and secondary research, and supported by a full scholarly apparatus of maps, footnotes, bibliography, and index ... Highly recommended.
A.C. Reeves, CHOICE
Smith has thus produced a work with broad appeal and provides food for thought. Highly recommended.
Linda E. Mitchell, The Medieval Review
...a painstakingly ... Read morewell-researched and scholarly work that will quickly become indispensable to historians of later medieval Ireland. The truly impressive prosopographical work that Smith uses as the backbone of his study is characterized by a level of detail and specificity missing from many studies of regional communities and provides an excellent roadmap for such research going forward.
Sparky Booker, Economic History Review
This study is a model of how medieval history should be written, whereby the experience of one local community illuminates a much broader landscape.
Dr Colman O Clabaigh, The Tablet
carefully nuanced study ... rich in ideas and evidence ... deserves the close attention of everybody interested in the modulations of government and society across the dominions of the late medieval English crown.
Robin Frame, English Historical Review
Brendan Smith has made a major contribution to the study of English communities in medieval Ireland, illustrating the resilience of their identity despite the challenges that faced them on the march or in the council chamber.
Emmett O'Byrne, American Historical Review
What is impressive here is Smith's control of scattered and often fragmentary archival sources.
Peter Crooks, History
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