Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641-1770 / Toby Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestants--Ireland--Social conditions--17th century.

Protestants.

Protestants--Ireland--Social life and customs--17th century.

Protestants--Ireland--Social conditions--18th century.

Protestants--Ireland--Social life and customs--18th century.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xiii, 359 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland : Four Courts, 2004.

Contents:

1 Planters and policies in Cromwellian Ireland 1

2 The political, material and mental culture of the Cork settlers, c.1650-1700 35

3 Land and the limits of loyalty: the second earl of Cork and first earl of Burlington (1612-1698) 84

4 The uses of the 23rd of October 1641 and Irish Protestant celebrations 111

5 Reforming Irish manners: the religious societies in Dublin during the 1690s 143

6 Protestants and the Irish language, c.1675-1725 179

7 Gardening, diet and 'improvement' in later seventeenth-century Ireland 208

8 What became of Waring? The making of an Ulster squire 235

9 A tale of three sisters: Katherine Conolly of Castletown 266

10 Edmund Spencer, Edmund Spenser and the problems of Irish Protestants in the mid-eighteenth century 290

11 Improving clergymen, 1660-1760 306

Conclusion: Ascents and ascendancies in Protestant Ireland, 1649-1770 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1851826939

OCLC:

53860832