Consolidating conquest : Ireland 1603-1727 / Pádraig Lenihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenihan, Pádraig, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--17th century.

Ireland.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 318 pages : maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2008.

Summary:

"Either they or we must be ruined" concluded Archbishop William King of Protestant Catholic relations in Ireland. And this, argues Padraig Lenihan, was the default state of relations between the two communities throughout the 17th century.

This groundbreaking and controversial new study tells the story of two nations in Ireland; an Irish Catholic nation and a Protestant nation, emerging from a blood stained century. This survey confronts the violence and enmity inherent in the consolidation of conquest.

This was the age of: the Ulster plantation, Cromwell's conquest and post-war settlement, the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, the sieges of Derry and Limerick, the economic and parliamentary foundations of Protestant ascendancy.

Lenihan contends that the overriding grand narrative of this period was one of conflict and dispossession as the native elite was progressively displaced by a new colonial ruling class. This struggle was not confined to war but also had cultural, religious, economic and social reverberations. At times the darkness was relieved throughout the period by episodes of peaceful cooperation. Consolidating Conquest places events in Ireland in the context of three Stuart kingdoms, religious rivalry within and between those kingdoms, and the shifting balance of power as monarchy and commonwealth, Whitehall and Westminster, fought for ultimate power.

If the project of creating a common Irish national identity, embracing Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter was for the most part a failure, and divisions between 'native' and 'newcomer' froze into permanence, then the explanation must be sought in the catastrophic seventeenth century. Consolidating Conquest shows how this failure has left a legacy of contending histories which offer material for latter day triumphalism and victimhood. For any student wishing to understand Ireland's troubled past and complex present, this book is essential reading.

Contents:

1 Reform to conquest 1534-1603 1

The English lordship 1

Tudor reform 3

Conquest 8

2 Consolidating conquest 23

The flight 23

Chichester and recusancy 30

3 Plantation 1608-22 41

Theory 41

Practice 44

Natives and settlers 47

Security 51

Ulster and Munster compared 53

Later plantations 56

Conclusion: plantation and the market economy 58

4 English, Old and New 1613-40 65

Inventing Irishness 65

The parliament of 1613-15 70

The 'Graces' 71

The Tridentine Project 75

'Thorough' 76

5 Rising 1641-42 87

The Scottish crisis 87

Plots 88

The rising 94

Conclusion: three kingdoms, one crisis? 102

6 God or King? 1642-49 109

Confederation of Kilkenny 109

Talking peace 114

Confederate collapse 119

Royalist resurgence 120

7 Cromwellian conquest and settlement 1649-59 127

Cromwell in Ireland 1649-59 127

An Irish war 1650-52 131

A blank sheet 134

8 Charles II 1660-85 153

Restoration 153

Ormond's second viceroyalty 1662-69 155

Ormond out of favour 1669-77 162

The Popish Plot 165

9 James II 1685-91 173

The 'glorious revolution' 173

Tyrconnel 174

A 'patriot parliament' 177

The war of the kings 179

The Treaty of Limerick 187

Conclusion: what if? 189

10 Parliament, patronage and 'patriots' 1692-1727 195

Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter 195

Parliaments 1692-99 201

The Woollen Act 205

Tory ascendancy 1702-14 208

George I (1714-27) 215

11 Land and people 227

Tillage and pastoral Ireland 227

Demography and diet 230

Social class 233

Popular culture: language and religion 238

Wars and peace 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-307) and index.

ISBN:

9780582772175

0582772176

OCLC:

173238975