Introduction: The Lecky professors / Peter Crooks
Prologue: Irish history and its popular versions / Edmund Curtis
Part 1, Government : Ireland and the English crown, 1171-1541 / James Lydon
The chief governors of medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
William of Windsor and the Irish parliament / James Lydon
the medieval Irish chancery / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
Anglo-Irish shire government in the thirteenth century / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
Part 2, War : Knight service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
Royal service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
The hobelar : an Irish contribution to medieval warfare / James Lydon
An Irish army in Scotland, 1296 / James Lydon
Irish levies in the Scottish wars, 1296-1302 / James Lydon
Edward I, Ireland and the war in Scotland, 1303-1304 / James Lydon
Richard II's expeditions to Ireland / James Lydon
Richard, duke of York, as viceroy of Ireland, 1447-1460 : with unpublished materials for his relations with native chiefs / Edmund Curtis
Part 3, Society : The character of Norman settlement in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
The organization of Anglo-Irish agriculture in the middle ages / A.J. Otway-Ruthven
The English and Ostmen in Ireland / Edmund Curtis
The clan system among the English settlers in Ireland / Edmund Curtis
The spoken languages of medieval Ireland / Edmund Curtis
The problem of the frontier in medieval Ireland / James Lydon
The middle nation / James Lydon
Further reading - Government, war and society in English Ireland, 1171-1541 : a guide to recent work / Peter Crooks.
Government, war and society in medieval Ireland : essays by Edmund Curtis. ISBN 9781846821059. Published by Four Courts Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.