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The Cambridge History of Ireland

Volume 2. 1550–1730

Part of The Cambridge History of Ireland

Jane Ohlmeyer, Ciaran Brady, David Edwards, John Cunningham, Ted McCormack, Charles Ivar McGrath, D. W. Hayton, Tadhg Ó Hannracháin, Colm Lennon, Robert Armstrong, John Jeremiah Cronin, Pádraig Lenihan, Clodagh Tait, Mary O'Dowd, Susan Flavin, Jane Fenlon, William O'Reilly, Marc Caball, Bernadette Cunningham, Deana Rankin, Brendan Kane, Ian Campbell, Raymond Gillespie, Annaleigh Margey, Micheál Ó Siochrú, David Brown, Frank Ludlow, Arlene Crampsie, Nicholas Canny
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  • Date Published: March 2020
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107540460

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  • This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The remaining chapters are more thematic, with chapters on 'Society', 'Culture', and 'Economy and Environment', and often respond to wider methodologies and historiographical debates. Interdisciplinary cross-pollination - between, on the one hand, history and, on the other, disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, geography, computer science, literature and gender and environmental studies - informs many of the chapters. The volume offers a range of new departures by a generation of scholars who explain in a refreshing and accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.

    • Places the Irish experience in the broader context of early modern European and global developments, allowing for comparisons and contrasts with other countries to emerge
    • Contains new and original perspectives from the leading scholars in the field
    • Written in an accessible style and supported by full scholarly apparatus and carefully selected maps, tables and illustrations
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    'The new approaches and topics set out here will certainly … [attract] a new generation of historians while revitalizing the field and those already working in it, ensuring the continued growth of interest in early modern Ireland. Each of the essays, too numerous to consider individually here, set out larger developments and themes in clear and accessible language suitable for undergraduates and those new to the subject … while offering novel and nuanced interpretations sure to reinvigorate advanced scholars.' Valerie McGowan-Doyle, Renaissance Quarterly

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    • Date Published: March 2020
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107540460
    • length: 796 pages
    • dimensions: 227 x 153 x 37 mm
    • weight: 1.29kg
    • contains: 33 b/w illus. 4 maps 10 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Introduction:
    1. Ireland in the early modern world Jane Ohlmeyer
    Part II. Politics:
    2. Politics, policy and power, 1550–1603 Ciaran Brady
    3. Political change and social transformation, 1603–1641 David Edwards
    4. Politics, 1641–1660 John Cunningham
    5. Restoration politics, 1660–1691 Ted McCormack
    6. Politics, 1692–1730 Charles Ivar McGrath
    7. The emergence of a protestant society, 1691–1730 D. W. Hayton
    Part III. Religion and War:
    8. Counter reformation: the Catholic Church, 1550–1641 Tadhg Ó Hannracháin
    9. Protestant reformations, 1550–1641 Colm Lennon
    10. Establishing a confessional Ireland, 1641–1691 Robert Armstrong
    11. Wars of religion, 1641–1691 John Jeremiah Cronin and Pádraig Lenihan
    Part IV. Society:
    12. Society, 1550–1730 Clodagh Tait
    13. Men, women, children and the family, 1550–1730 Mary O'Dowd
    14. Domestic materiality in Ireland, 1550–1730 Susan Flavin
    15. Irish art and architecture, 1550–1730 Jane Fenlon
    16. Ireland in the Atlantic world: migration and cultural transfer William O'Reilly
    Part V. Culture:
    17. Language, print and literature in Irish, 1550–1630 Marc Caball
    18. Language, literature and print in Irish, 1630–1730 Bernadette Cunningham
    19. The emergence of English print and literature, 1630–1730 Deana Rankin
    20. A world of honour: aristocratic mentalité Brendan Kane
    21. Irish political thought and intellectual history, 1550–1730 Ian Campbell
    Part VI. Economy and Environment:
    22. Economic life, 1550–1730 Raymond Gillespie
    23. Plantations, 1550–1641 Annaleigh Margery
    24. The down survey and the Cromwellian land settlement Micheál Ó Siochrú and David Brown
    25. Environmental history of Ireland, 1550–1730 Frank Ludlow and Arlene Crampsie
    Part VII. Afterword:
    26. Interpreting the history of early modern Ireland: from the sixteenth century to the present Nicholas Canny.

  • Editor

    Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin
    Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin and the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity's research institute for advanced study in the Arts and Humanities. Since September 2015 she has also served as Chair of the Irish Research Council. She has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Yale University, Connecticut, and the University of Aberdeen and has held several visiting international appointments. A passionate teacher and an internationally established scholar of early modern Irish history, Professor Ohlmeyer is the author/editor of eleven books, including Making Ireland English: The Aristocracy in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (2012). She is currently working on a study of Colonial Ireland, Colonial India and preparing an edition of Clarendon's Shorte View of Ireland. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

    General Editor

    Thomas Bartlett , University of Aberdeen
    Thomas Bartlett was born in Belfast, and is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast. He has held positions at the National University of Ireland, Galway, then as Professor of Modern Irish history at University College Dublin, and most recently as Professor of Irish history at the University of Aberdeen, until his retirement in 2014. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and his previous publications include Ireland: A History (Cambridge, 2010).

    Contributors

    Jane Ohlmeyer, Ciaran Brady, David Edwards, John Cunningham, Ted McCormack, Charles Ivar McGrath, D. W. Hayton, Tadhg Ó Hannracháin, Colm Lennon, Robert Armstrong, John Jeremiah Cronin, Pádraig Lenihan, Clodagh Tait, Mary O'Dowd, Susan Flavin, Jane Fenlon, William O'Reilly, Marc Caball, Bernadette Cunningham, Deana Rankin, Brendan Kane, Ian Campbell, Raymond Gillespie, Annaleigh Margey, Micheál Ó Siochrú, David Brown, Frank Ludlow, Arlene Crampsie, Nicholas Canny

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