This collection examines the interplay between politics and religion in early modern Ireland, with a particular focus on its urban communities. Contents: Mary Clark (Dublin City Archives) & Gael Chenard (Archives Departmentales des Hautes-Alpes), The Religious Guild of St George, Dublin; Rory Masterson (Colaiste Choilm, Tullamore), The dissolution of the monasteries in 16th-century Meath; Henry Jefferies (Thornhill College, Derry), Tudor reformations in Cork; Alan Ford (U Nottingham), Henry Fitzsimon, James Ussher and the birth of an Irish religious debate; Neasa Malone (ind.), Henry Burnell and Richard Netterville: lawyers in civic life in the English Pale, 1562-1615; Bernadette Cunningham (RIA), Nuns and their networks in early modern Galway; Mary Ann Lyons (MU), Thomas Arthur MD (1593-1675) in Limerick and Dublin; Raymond Gillespie (MU), Religion and politics in Belfast, 1660-1720; Jacqueline Hill (MU), Oaths and oath-taking in Dublin, 1670-1774; Thomas O'Connor (MU), Dublin weavers before the Spanish Inquisition, 1745-54; Toby Barnard (U Oxford), Fr John Murphy (1710-53): a saint for 18th-century Dublin?; Ciaran Brady (TCD), Sir John Gilbert (1829-98): historian of early modern Dublin.