British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

by Edited by Ciaran Brady , Jane Ohlmeyer

• ISBN13: 9780521835305
• ISBN10: 0521835305
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book offers a perspective on Irish History from the late sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Many of the chapters address, from national, regional and individual perspectives, the key events, institutions and processes that transformed the history of early modern Ireland. Others probe the nature of Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland's ambiguous constitutional position during these years and the problems inherent in running a multiple monarchy. Where appropriate, the volume adopts a wider comparative approach and casts fresh light on a range of historiographical debates, including the 'New British Histories', the nature of the 'General Crisis' and the question of Irish exceptionalism. Collectively, these essays challenge and complicate traditional paradigms of conquest and colonization. By examining the inconclusive and contradictory manner in which English and Scottish colonists established themselves in the island, it casts further light on all of its inhabitants during the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Aidan Clarke: an appreciation	xiii
Conventions	xviii
List of abbreviations	xix
1 Making good: New perspectives on the English in early modern Ireland	1	(27)
CIARAN BRADY AND JANE OHLMEYER
2 The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland	28	(21)
CIARAN BRADY
3 Dynamics of regional development: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of south-east Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland	49	(24)
HAROLD O'SULLIVAN
4 The 'common good' and the university in an age of confessional conflict	73	(24)
HELGA ROBINSON-HAMMERSTEIN
5 The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599-1614	97	(19)
BRIAN JACKSON
6 The Bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised	116	(19)
R.J. HUNTER
7 'That Bugbear Arminianism': Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin	135	(26)
ALAN FORD
8 The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640-1641	161	(25)
JANE OHLMEYER
9 The Irish elections of 1640-1641	186	(21)
BRID McGRATH
10 Catholic Confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641-1649	207	(23)
MICHEÁL Ó SIOCHRÚ
11 Protestant churchmen and the Confederate Wars	230	(22)
ROBERT ARMSTRONG
12 The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems?	252	(28)
GEOFFREY PARKER
13 Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples	280	(19)
SARAH BARBER
14 Interests in Ireland: the 'fanatic zeal and irregular ambition' of Richard Lawrence	299	(16)
TOBY BARNARD
15 Temple's fate: reading The Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland	315	(19)
RAYMOND GILLESPIE
16 Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneux's Case of Ireland...Stated (1698)	334	(23)
PATRICK KELLY
Principal publications of Aidan Clarke	357	(2)
Index	359