The Tudors and The Stuarts
The continued isolation of Irish politics from English and Continental influence during the fifteenth century, and England's preoccupation with the Wars of the Roses, helped Ireland's most powerful Anglo-Norman family - the FitzGeralds of Kildare - to establish and consolidate control of the east and southeast of the country. For the most part, their growing authority was left unchallenged by the early Tudor monarchy, whose policy towards Ireland was based mainly on considerations of economy - it was cheaper to accept Kildare's rule than establish an English deputy who would need expensive military backing - and security - Irish discontent with English rule should not be allowed to take forms which might be exploited by England's foreign enemies.
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