Making Ireland British, 1580-1650

by Canny, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780198200918
• ISBN10: 0198200919
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first comprehensive study of plantations in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses that this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland.

Author Biography

Nicholas Canny is Professor of History, and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
Spenser Sets the Agenda	1	(58)
Discoursing in Dublin	1	(8)
Poetry as Politics: The Faerie Queene	9	(22)
Spenser as Moral Philosopher in 1596	31	(11)
Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland	42	(13)
Conclusion	55	(4)
The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland	59	(62)
The Background	59	(7)
Soldiers	66	(9)
Officers	75	(28)
Administrators	103	(15)
Conclusion	118	(3)
The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice	121	(44)
The Theory	121	(13)
The Practice	134	(25)
The Consequence	159	(6)
Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice	165	(78)
The Politics of Plantation 1603-1622	165	(22)
The Plantation of Ulster: The Theory	187	(18)
The Plantation of Ulster: The Practice 1609-1622	205	(38)
The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641	243	(58)
The Report of the Commission of 1622	243	(15)
The Plantation Issue 1622-1632	258	(17)
Wentworth's Policy of Plantation 1632-1641	275	(23)
Conclusion	298	(3)
The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland	301	(101)
The Establishment	301	(7)
British Settlement in Ireland: Evidence from the Estate Records	308	(28)
The British Presence in Munster	336	(11)
The British Presence in Ulster	347	(15)
The British Presence in Leinster	362	(22)
The British Presence in Connacht	384	(5)
The British Presence in Ireland: Appearance and Reality	389	(13)
Plantation and Its Politics: The Irish Responses	402	(59)
The Problem	402	(1)
The Irish at Home	403	(15)
The Irish Abroad	418	(14)
Natives and Strangers	432	(23)
Conclusion	455	(6)
The Irish Insurrection of 1641	461	(90)
The Historiographical Background	461	(8)
The Rising in Ulster in 1641	469	(23)
The Rising in Connacht and Clare in 1641	492	(9)
The Rising of 1641 in Leinster and in Waterford	501	(23)
The Rising in Munster in 1641	524	(10)
Conclusion	534	(17)
Conclusion: Making Ireland British 1580-1650	551	(28)
Bibliography	579	(28)
Glossary	607	(2)
Index	609