Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they sought to exploit. They wanted to 'make good'.
Synopsis
This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It challenges traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and it reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists.
Synopsis
This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
About the Author
Ciaran Brady is Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Dublin. His previous publications include The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588 (1995).Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. Her previous publications include Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms (1993), Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (1995), Kingdom or Colony?: Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (2000).
Table of Contents
1. New perspectives on the English in early modern Ireland Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer; 2. The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland Ciaran Brady; 3. Dynamics of regional dvelopment: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of South-East Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland Harold O'Sullivan; 4. The 'common good' and the university in an age of confessional conflict Helga Robinson-Hammerstein; 5. The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599-1614 Brian Jackson; 6. The bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised R. J. Hunter; 7. 'That bugbear Armenianism': Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin Alan Ford; 8. The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640-1641 Jane Ohlmeyer; 9. The Irish elections of 1640-1641 Brid McGrath; 10. Catholic confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641-1649 Micheal O. Siochru; 11. Protestant churchmen and the confederate wars Robert Armstrong; 12. The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems? Geoffrey Parker; 13. Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples Sarah Barber; 14. Interests in Ireland: the 'fanatic zeal and the irregular ambition' of Richard Lawrence Toby Barnard; 15. Temple's fate: reading the Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 16. Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneaux's Case of Ireland ... Stated (1698) Patrick Kelly.