| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : maps. |
|
data file |
| Series |
Studies in early modern Irish history
|
|
Studies in early modern Irish history.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. Indeed, the 1641 'massacres', like the battles at the Boyne (1690) and 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. Following a succe. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rebellion of 1641 (Ireland : 1641) |
|
Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641.
|
| Chronological Term |
1641 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Author |
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, 1966- editor.
|
|
Ohlmeyer, Jane H., editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ireland, 1641. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013 0719088178 (DLC) 2013443033 (OCoLC)843332740 |
| ISBN |
1784992038 |
|
0719088178 |
|
9780719088179 |
|
9781784992033 (electronic book) |
|
