British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

by Edited by Ciaran Brady , Jane Ohlmeyer

• ISBN13: 9780521154604
• ISBN10: 052115460X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• 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

New perspectives on the English in early modern

The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland

Dynamics of regional dvelopment: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of South-East Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland

The 'common good' and the university in an age of confessional conflict

The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599-1614

The bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised

'That bugbear Armenianism': Archbishop Laud and Trinity College

The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640-1641

The Irish elections of 1640-1641

Catholic confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641-1649

Protestant churchmen and the confederate wars

The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems?

Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples

Interests in Ireland: the 'fanatic zeal and the irregular ambition' of Richard Lawrence

Temple's fate: reading the Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland

Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneaux's Case of Ireland ...; Stated (1698)

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