"This very welcome book by Joseph Mannion offers the first monograph-length study of the impact of English colonisation on Connacht during one of the most formative periods in Irish history, taking the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many as its core case-studies ... Overall, this is a very impressive piece of scholarship and [it] ... represents an important contribution to the historiography of sixteenth-century Ireland." Simon Egan, History Ireland.