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Valerie McGowan-Doyle Editor & Author

Sarah Covington is Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York, and director of the Irish Studies program at Queens College. In addition to two books and numerous articles on early modern England and Ireland, she is the author of a forthcoming book that will explore the political, folkloric, literary, and religious afterlives of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland over three centuries.

Vincent P. Carey teaches European history at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in upstate New York. He has published extensively on sixteenth-century Ireland and is currently finishing a book tentatively titled Murder on the Border of the Pale: A Sixteenth-Century Irish Micro-History.

Valerie McGowan-Doyle is Professor of History at Lorain County Community College and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. She is the author of The Book of Howth: Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English (2011) and coeditor of Elizabeth I and Ireland (2014). Her current research examines violence against women in early modern Ireland.