Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660

by Potterton, Michael; Herron, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781846822834
• ISBN10: 1846822831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Following the acclaimed volume Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660 (2007) by the same editors, this multi-disciplinary collection in history, art history, literature, and archaeology takes a wide look at the region of the English Pale in Ireland - and the concept of the Pale itself - during the early modern period. The subjects covered include: the archaeological traces of Pale fortifications * hidden houses at Athy, Co. Kildare, and Carstown, Co. Louth * the Gaelic Irish of east Leinster and their countrymen at the London court * gardens * music * powerful Geraldine women * the classical and political pretentions of the 'Old English' literary community * church settlement * a new interpretation of the Earl of Strafford's daunting pile at Jigginstown near Naas, Co. Kildare * and more.

Author Biography

Michael Potterton is co-author (with Margaret Murphy) of The Dublin region in the Middle Ages (Dublin, 2010). Thomas Herron is Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
List of Abbreviations	p. 11
List of Contributors	p. 15
Acknowledgments	p. 17
Introduction: the FitzGeralds, Florence, St Fiachra and a few fragments	p. 19
History & Architecture
The purpose of the Pale: a view from Kilkenny	p. 51
The Tudor state and the Irish of east Leinster, 1535-54	p. 68
'What's love got to do with it?': gender and Geraldine power on the Pale border	p. 93
A gatehouse to beyond the boundaries of the Pale: reflections on Rathcoffey, Co. Kildare	p. 104
Challenging narratives: an early modern house at Carstown, Co. Louth	p. 125
The dating of the White Castle, Athy, Co. Kildare: an outlying bastion of the Pale	p. 145
Continuity and change: the material setting of public worship in the sixteenth-century Pale	p. 182
'They say I build up to the sky': Thomas Wentworth, Jigginstown House and Dublin Castle	p. 207
'All gorgiusly wrought': Renaissance influence at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin	p. 224
Music, Language & Letters
Gaelic and European interactions on Ireland's harmonic frontiers	p. 251
Languages of legitimacy? An Ghaeilge, the earl of Thomond and British politics in the Renaissance Pale, 1600-24	p. 267
The survival of books formerly owned by members of Old English and Gaelic Irish families in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	p. 280
Pale martyr: politicizing Richard Stanihurst's Aeneis	p. 291
Wrestling with the angel: the typology of Israel in John Derricke's The image of Ireland	p. 319
James Shirley and the earl of Kildare: speculating playhouses and dwarves à la mode	p. 352
'End of a pale' or 'a new pale in the making'?: the 'Barbarous nook' of the North, from Shakespeare to Milton	p. 372
Bibliography	p. 391
Index	p. 425
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