Synopses & Reviews
This volume offers the first ever in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished scholars shed new light on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers and treatises. Major issues are addressed including the constitutional relationship between England and Ireland, Ireland's intellectual links with Catholic Europe, and the place of Irish political thought in its wider "three kingdoms," imperial and Atlantic contexts. The volume adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the formation of early modern Irish identity.
Review
"A fascinating and important book." History: Reviews of New Books"Political thought in seventeenth-century Ireland is largely the story of complaint against, and resistance to, the changing forms of English/British authority. This volume and its contributors usefully explore the many permutations of that theme." H-NET Reviews
Synopsis
This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished scholars shed new light on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers and treatises, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the formation of early modern Irish identity.
Synopsis
This 2000 book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Jane H. Ohlmeyer; Part I. Ireland and England: 2. Patrick Darcy and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain Aidan Clarke; 3. Counter-currents in colonial discourse: The political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin Patricia Coughlan; 4. Recasting a tradition: William Molyneux and the sources of The Case of Ireland Stated (1698) Patrick Kelly; 5. Political ideas and their social contexts in seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; Part II. Ireland and the Continent: 6. Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch's Cambrensis Eversus (1662) Bernadette Cunningham; 7. 'Though hereticks and politicians should misinterpret their good zeale': Political ideology and Catholicism in early modern Ireland Tadhg óhAnnracháin; 8. Gaelic Maccabeanism: the politics of reconciliation Jerrold Casway; Part III. Irish Political Thought and the New British and Irish Histories: 9. Covenanting ideology in seventeenth-century Scotland Allan Macinnes; 10. The political economy of Britian and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution David Armitage; 11. From ancient constitution to British empire: William Atwood and the imperial crown of England Charles C. Ludington; 12. The third kingdom in its history: an afterword J. G. A. Pocock.