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23 results in Irish Historical Monographs

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The Struggle for Mastery in Ireland, 1442-1540
  • Culture, Politics and Kildare-Ormond Rivalry
  • Alan Kelly
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2024
    Print publication:
    19 March 2024
  • A reassessment of the rivalry between the two great Anglo-Norman magnate families in late medieval and early modern Ireland, putting forward a new interpretation of events.

Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600
  • Economics, Environment and Ecology
  • Patrick W. Hayes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 February 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2023
  • This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600.

Ireland's English Pale, 1470-1550
  • The Making of a Tudor Region
  • Steven G. Ellis
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    12 November 2021
  • A key argument of this book is that the English Pale - the four counties around Dublin under English control - was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, whereby 'the four obedient shires' were protected by new fortifications and a newly-constituted English-style militia, which replaced the former system of extended marches, was highly effective, making unnecessary money and troops from England, and enabling the Dublin government to be self-financing. The book provides full details of this new system. It also demonstrates how direct rule by an English army and governor, which replaced the system in the years after 1534, was much more costly and led on in turn to the policy of 'surrender and regrant' under which Irish chiefs became subject to English law. The book highlights how this policy made the English Pale's frontiers redundant, but how ideologically ideas of 'English civility' nevertheless survived, and 'the wild Atlantic way' remained 'beyond the Pale'.

The Jacobite Duchess
  • Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649-1731
  • Frances Nolan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    17 September 2021
  • Frances Jennings, elder sister of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, had an interesting and eventful life, most notably as the influential wife of Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell, Catholic viceroy of Ireland under James II. Born circa 1649 into a Hertfordshire gentry family, she was a noted beauty at the Restoration court. There, she met and married George Hamilton, a Catholic officer who, after 1667, served in Louis XIV's army. In Paris, Frances raised three daughters, converted to Catholicism, and became an active member of the English Catholic émigré community. Following Hamilton's death, she remarried to Richard Talbot. As vicereine of Ireland, Frances helped re-establish Catholic hegemony, assisting in the foundation of convents and re-consecration of Christ Church cathedral. During the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland (1689-91), Frances fled to James II's exiled court in France. In 1691, she received word that her husband, now Jacobite duke of Tyrconnell, had died. Attainted for high treason, she used the Marlboroughs' influence to recover her Irish estates. In 1708, she returned to Dublin, where she died in 1731. Highlighting Frances's political manoeuvrings, religious identity and deep family attachments, this book portrays a complex and contested figure, a woman who acted on multiple stages, in diverse roles, challenging expectations of rank, gender, and 'nationality' in unexpected ways.

Ireland and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Fergal O'Leary
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2023
    Print publication:
    15 August 2023
  • This book examines the place of imperialism in the cultural, political and economic life of late nineteenth-century Irish society.

Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937
  • 'The Desired Haven'
  • Angela McCarthy
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 July 2005
  • An innovative and original contribution to the history of European migration between the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years.

Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
  • Saffron, Stockings and Silk
  • Susan Flavin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • A detailed study of changing patterns of consumption, showing how these related to wider political, social and economic developments.

The Irish in the Spanish Armies in the Seventeenth Century
  • Eduardo de Mesa
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • Provides a wealth of detail on how 'the wild geese' - the Irish who refused to submit to the English - played a significant role in the armies of Spain.

The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy
  • The Life of William Conolly, 1662-1729
  • Patrick Walsh
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 February 2023
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • The life and political career of William Conolly, a key figure in the establishment of the eighteenth century protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700
  • Suppression, Migration and Reintegration
  • Bronagh Ann McShane
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    18 October 2022
  • This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways.

    Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.

Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster
  • Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland
  • Daniel Brown
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    19 November 2016
  • This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de Lacy, described by one contemporary chronicler as 'the most powerful of the English in Ireland'. A younger son of the lord of Meath, de Lacy ascended from relatively humble beginnings to join the top stratum of Angevin society, being granted in 1205 the first earldom in Ireland by King John. Subsequently, in 1210, having been implicated in rebellion, Hugh was expelled from Ulster by a royal army and joined the Albigensian crusade against Cathar heretics in southern France. Unusually, after almosttwo decades in exile and a second revolt against the English crown, de Lacy was restored to the earldom of Ulster by King Henry III in 1227, retaining it to his death, c. 1242.
    Situated in the north-east of Ireland, Ulster's remoteness from centres of colonial administration allowed Hugh de Lacy to operate beyond the normal mechanisms of royal control, forging his own connections with otherpowerful lords of the Irish Sea province. The fluidity of noble identity in frontier zones is also underlined by the career of someone who, according to his political needs, presented himself to different audiences as a courtly sophisticate, freebooting colonist, crusading warrior, or maurauding 'Irish' ruler.
    The foundation for this study is provided by Hugh de Lacy's acta, providedas an appendix, and representing the first collection of comital charters in an Irish context. These cast fresh light on the wider themes of power and identity, the intersection of crown and nobility,and the risks and rewards for ambitious frontiersmen in the Angevin world.

    Daniel Brown obtained his PhD from Queen's University Belfast, and completed his research on Hugh de Lacy as a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
  • Philanthropy and Improvement
  • Karen Sonnelitter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    16 June 2016
  • The philanthropic impulse to engage in charitable work and to encourage economic "improvement" was sharpened in eighteenth-century Ireland as Irish Protestants became increasingly aware of the threatthat social problems, such as poverty, disease and criminality, posed to their rule. One response to this threat was the establishment of a number of voluntary societies which sought to address the different problems plaguing Ireland. This book examines a number of these voluntary societies, including those concerned with promoting education, supporting hospitals, and improving agriculture and manufacturing. It shows how these movements differed from earlier efforts in organisation, method and aims and demonstrates the connection between religiously motivated charities, Enlightenment-inspiredscientific societies and the Irish government. It pays particular attention to the role of women, both as supporters of, and objects of, charity. It argues that, together, these movements aspired to purge Ireland of what they saw as destabilising factors that weakened the Anglo-Irish state. Improvers reflected Enlightenment-era optimism about the perfectibility of society and saw themselves as serving the interests and aspirations of the nation.

    Karen Sonnelitter is Assistant Professor of History at Siena College, Loudonville, New York. She completed her doctorate at Purdue University.

Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745
  • Imitation and Innovation
  • Rachel Wilson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2015
  • The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change within Ireland, as the Protestant Ascendancy gained control of the country, aided by the English government and aristocracy, with whom the ruling class in Ireland mixed through marriage and travel. The resulting Anglo-Irish elite, with its distinct transnational identity, differed markedly from the preceding Irish elite, but, at the same time, because of its Irish dimension, was very different also from the contemporary English and Scottish upper classes. Women played key roles in this Anglo-Irish elite, and the nature of the Protestant Ascendancy can only be completely understood by considering women's roles fully.This book provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland. It discusses marriage, family and social life; explores women's roles in economic and political life and in charitable activities; and places Irish elite women of this period in their wider historiographical context. The book is based on extensive original research, including among the papers of aristocratic families in Ireland and Britain, and provides a wealth of detail on elite women's lives in this period.Rachel Wilson completed her doctorate in modern history at Queen's University, Belfast.

Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450-1660
  • The Ormond Family, Power and Politics
  • Damien Duffy
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 March 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2021
  • An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.

Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920–22

Popular Protest and Policing in Ascendancy Ireland, 1691-1761

The Old English in Early Modern Ireland
  • The Palesmen and the Nine Years' War, 1594–1603
  • Volume 20
  • Ruth A. Canning
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 September 2019
    Print publication:
    15 March 2019
  • Examines the divided loyalties of the descendants of Ireland's Anglo-Norman conquerors during the wars against the Irish confederate rebels.

Catholic Survival in Protestant Ireland, 1660–1711
  • Colonel John Browne, Landownership and the Articles of Limerick
  • Eoin Kinsella
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 June 2018
    Print publication:
    01 June 2018
  • Traditional accounts of early modern Ireland have traced the seemingly inevitable decline of the Catholic landed interest following the Cromwellian and Williamite wars of the seventeenth century, portraying the Irish Catholic community as leaderless and politically moribund in the decades after the surrender of Limerick in 1691. This book demonstrates, however, that the picture was considerably more complex. By taking advantage of the upheavals in Irish landownership of the 1650s, many Catholics not only survived, but thrived. Having emerged as leaders of the Irish Catholic interest during the 1680s, these landowners refused to go into exile following the surrender of the Jacobites. They do not fit neatly into the archetype of the dispossessed and discontented Irish Catholic, offering instead an alternative perspective on Irish Jacobitism. Using the career of Colonel John Browne of Westport House as a focal point, this book casts new light on a wide range of subjects, including Catholic opposition to the repeal of the Restoration land settlement, the Irish Jacobite civil and military administration, estate management in late seventeenth-century Ireland, and the creation of lobbying networks in Dublin and London by Irish Catholics. The book also provides a detailed examination of the Williamite peace settlement in Ireland, and highlights the deeply interconnected nature of Irish society in the late seventeenth century. EOIN KINSELLA completed his doctorate at University College Dublin

The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland
  • Danielle McCormack
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    19 May 2016
  • This book focuses on how historical memory and political discourse affected land settlement and political processes in early Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland draws out the dynamism of the rhetorical, moral andlegal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the Protestant responses and the rise of a Protestant identity inextricably linked with the possession of power. This identity was expressed as that of the 'English in Ireland', a belligerent self-denomination which did little to accommodate the king or the importance of monarchy to the Protestant position in the country. Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, the book highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Ireland, which was defined by the intersection of political language, ideas, historical understandings and economic imperatives.

    DANIELLE McCORMACK is Assistant Professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Adam MickiewiczUniversity, Poznan, Poland.

The Welsh and the Shaping of Early Modern Ireland, 1558–1641
  • Rhys Morgan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    18 September 2014
  • The colonial presence in early modern Ireland is usually viewed as being thoroughly English, and in places Scottish, with the Welsh hardly featuring at all. This book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that there was in fact a significant Welsh involvement in Ireland between 1558 and 1641. It explores how the Welsh established themselves as soldiers, government officials and planters in Ireland. It also discusses how the Welsh, although participating in the 'English' colonisation of Ireland, nevertheless remained a distinct community, settling together and maintaining strong kinship and social and economic networks to fellow countrymen, including in Wales. It provides a detailed picture of the Welsh settler communities and their networks, and discusses the nature of Welsh settler identity. Overall, the book demonstrates how an understanding of the role of the Welsh in the shaping of early modern Ireland can offer valuable new perspectives on the histories of both countries and on the making of early modern Britain. Rhys Morgan completed his doctorate in history at Cardiff University.

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