Ireland, 1641 : contexts and reactions / edited by Micheál Ó Siochrú & Jane Ohlmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ó Siochrú, Micheál, 1966- editor.

Ohlmeyer, Jane H., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Studies in early modern Irish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--Rebellion of 1641.

Ireland.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : maps.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Thousands of witness testimonies (the 1641 Depositions) housed in Trinity College Dublin became central to one of the most protracted and bitter of Irish historical controversies. This controversy has never been satisfactorily resolved as successive generations invented and reinvented the past in response to contemporary political developments. Propagandists, politicians and historians all exploited the surviving evidence at different times to justify their implacable hostility towards Irish nationalism and the Catholic religion. The 1641 'massacres', therefore, like King William's victory at the Boyne (1690) and the Battle of the Somme (1916) played a key role in creating and sustaining a collective Protestant/British identity in Ulster, in much the same way that the subsequent Cromwellian conquest in the 1650s helped forge a new Irish Catholic national identity. The original and wide-ranging themes chosen for this volume, along with the high standard of the contributions from leading international scholars, will ensure that this edited collection becomes required reading for all those interested in the 1641 Rebellion, as well as the history of early modern Ireland and Europe. I: will also appeal to those engaged in early colonial studies in the Atlantic world and beyond, as the volume adopts a genuinely comparative approach throughout, examining developments in a broad global context. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : 1641: fresh contexts and perspectives / Jane Ohlmeyer & Micheál Ó Siochrú

Early modern violence from memory to history: a historiographical essay / Ethan H. Shagan

The '1641 massacres' / Aidan Clarke

1641 in a colonial context / Nicholas Canny

Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion / William J. Smyth

Out of the blue? provincial unrest in Ireland before 1641 / David Edwards

News from Ireland: Catalan, Portuguese and Castilian pamphlets on the Confederate War in Ireland / Hiram Morgan

Performative violence and the political of violence in the 1641 depositions / John Walter

Atrocities in the Thirty Years War / Peter H. Wilson

Why remember terror? memories of violence in the Dutch Revolt / Erika Kuijpers & Judith Pollman

Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion / Mark Greengrass

How to make a successful plantation: colonial experiment in America / Karen Ordahl Kupperman

An Irish Black Legend? 1641 and the Iberian Atlantic / Igor Pérez Tostado

Afterword : Settler colonies, ethno-religious violence, and historical documentation: comparative reflections on Southeast Asia and Ireland / Ben Kiernan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784992033

1784992038

Publisher Number:

99987166389

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