ireland foreign policy.

• context - ireland was technically controlled by the english monarch - however in reality this was not so simple
• context - ireland was strongly catholic and it was hard to enforce religious change given the distance from london
• the pale was controlled by lord deputy which was a leader appointed by the monarch
• The irish was seen as primitive by the English because they were normadic and used bartering rather than money
• Henry made himself 'king of ireland' not lord, chieftains had to surrender land to king and have it given to them by him