Date: 2016
Type: Book
The Stuart restoration and the English in Ireland
Woodbridge ; Rochester : Boydell Press, 2016, Irish Historical Monograph Series
MCCORMACK, Danielle, The Stuart restoration and the English in Ireland, Woodbridge ; Rochester : Boydell Press, 2016, Irish Historical Monograph Series
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/40808
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This book focuses on how historical memory and political discourse affected land settlement and political processes in early Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland draws out the dynamism of the rhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the Protestant responses and the rise of a Protestant identity inextricably linked with the possession of power. This identity was expressed as that of the 'English in Ireland', a belligerent self-denomination which did little to accommodate the king or the importance of monarchy to the Protestant position in the country. Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, the book highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Ireland, which was defined by the intersection of political language, ideas, historical understandings and economic imperatives.
Table of Contents:
-- 1 Introduction
-- 2 The political and mental map of 1660s Ireland
-- 3 Stuart restoration and the beginnings of Protestant discontent
-- 4 Roger Boyle, earl of Orrery, and the evolution of English Protestant identity in Ireland
-- 5 Moral and rhetorical challenges to Protestant power
-- 6 Charles II and his ministers in Ireland
-- 7 The court of claims, popery and Stuart authority
-- 8 Conclusion
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/40808
ISBN: 9781783271146
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29617
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013