Divided kingdom : Ireland, 1630-1800 / S.J. Connolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connolly, Sean, 1951-

Series:

Oxford history of early modern Europe.

Oxford history of early modern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Ireland--History--17th century.

British.

British--Ireland--History--18th century.

Ireland--History--17th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--18th century.

Ireland--Politics and government--17th century.

Ireland--Politics and government--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwiseBritain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting I

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. Lowestoft, Suffolk, 1665; 2. The Crisis of Composite Monarchy; 'Thorough'; Parliamentary Opposition 1640-1641; Queries and Arguments; Ulster's Vespers; The Hill of Crofty; 3. A War of Many Parts; Religion, King, or Nation?; War and Peaces; Blood and Ruin; 'Transport, Transplant, is my Understanding of English'; 4. Through the Looking Glass: Restoration Ireland; The Birth of the Protestant Nation; Decrees of Innocence; Dissenters and Remonstrants; King Charles's Ireland; Irish Understandings; 5. Freedom, Religion, and Laws

The Catholic SuccessionSole Right; Preventing the Further Growth of Popery; Preventing the Further Growth of Dissent; 6. Metropolitan Province; The Case of Ireland; The Rage of Party; A Dependent Kingdom; The Whole People of Ireland; Good Words, Burgundy, and Closeting; Patriots and Undertakers; 7. New Lights and Old Faiths; Defending Ascendancy; Defending Establishment; The Church of Rome; The Church as by Law Established; Dissenting Protestants; 8. Rulers and Ruled; Alarms and Excursions; Ruling Circles; Frontier Justice; Hidden Irelands; 9. Atlantic Island; Cattle and Linen

Grain and PotatoesImprovement and Enlightenment?; Old and New Worlds; 10. Imperial Crisis; Time Has Almost Destroyed the Old Machine; Bringing Government Back to the Castle; Dragon's Teeth; A Bungling Imperfect Business; Ireland is Now a Nation; A Mere Cake of Wax; Mediterranean Visions; 11. Revolution Contained; United Irishmen; Protestant Ascendancy; Delirium of the Brave; An Act of Union; 12. The Common Name of Irishman; Maps; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

This volume is a continuation of the study previously published as Contested island in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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Contains:

Connolly, S. J. (Sean J.). Contested island.

ISBN:

0-19-958387-0

0-19-156243-2

1-281-85238-4

9786611852382

OCLC:

263375417