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Eoin Ó Néill
O Estado Que Nunca Foi: Guerra e a Formação do Estado na
Irlanda do Século XVI
Tese apresentada ao Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro como
requisito parcial para a obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências Humanas:
Sociologia
Banca Examinadora
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Renato Raul Boschi (Orientador)
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Cesar Augusto Guimarães (Presidente)
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Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho
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Marcos Bretas
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Douglas Libby
de Janeiro
2005
VOLUME I
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Table of Contents
Volume I
Abstract/Resumo
iii
Acknowledgments
v
Chronology
vi
Dramatis Personae
x
Maps
xii
Foreword
1
Chapter I - War, the Military Revolution and Statebuilding in Late
Elizabethan Ireland
15
Chapter II – On the Brink of War: Ireland in the early 1590s
51
Chapter III – The Path to War: Ulster 1592 – 1594
87
Chapter IV – The Rebellion Becomes a War
143
Chapter V – The Lingering Truce
235
Volume II
Chapter VI - The Tottering State: From the Yellow Ford to Essex 326
Chapter VII – Fate and the Irish State: O’Neill, Mountjoy and Essex
436
Conclusion
600
Bibliography
616
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Abstract
This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between war and state formation in late sixteenth century
Ireland. A narrow time frame, the period of the Nine Years War (1594-1603), is adopted as this is the key
period for the future development of the state in Ireland, as the final victory of the English crown i