Kingdom in Crisis

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"This book charts developments in Ireland in the aftermath of the Ulster rising in October 1641. For the next twelve years the island was engulfed in a ruinous conflict involving Irish confederates, Scottish covenanters, English parliamentarians and royalists from each of the three Stuart kingdoms. The 1640s, however, also witnessed a variety of political, constitutional, military and cultural initiatives, centred primarily (though by no means exclusively) on the confederate administration in Kilkenny. Following on from the pioneering research of ...
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"This book charts developments in Ireland in the aftermath of the Ulster rising in October 1641. For the next twelve years the island was engulfed in a ruinous conflict involving Irish confederates, Scottish covenanters, English parliamentarians and royalists from each of the three Stuart kingdoms. The 1640s, however, also witnessed a variety of political, constitutional, military and cultural initiatives, centred primarily (though by no means exclusively) on the confederate administration in Kilkenny. Following on from the pioneering research of Donal Cregan, leading scholars in the field examine the major issues of the time, in a series of challenging and accessible essays."--BOOK JACKET.
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Irish, British, and North American historians examine developments in Ireland after the Ulster rising in October 1641. They show how for the next 12 years, while England was experiencing the Interregnum and rule by Oliver Cromwell, Ireland was engulfed in a ruinous conflict involving Irish confederates, Scottish covenanters, English parliamentarians, and royalists from each of the three Stuart kingdoms. Priest, educator, and historian Cregan died in 1995. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781851825356
  • Publisher: Four Courts Press
  • Publication date: 4/25/2001
  • Pages: 288

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 6
List of Abbreviations 7
Preface 9
Introduction 11
1 'Parlour entertainment in an evening'? Histories of the 1640s 20
2 The decline and fate of Donal Ballagh O'Cahan and his family 44
3 Irish recusant lawyers during the reign of Charles I 63
4 Parliament men and the confederate association 90
5 The English parliament and the Irish constitution, 1641-9 106
6 Ormond, the confederate peace talks and protestant royalism 122
7 John Barry: an Irish catholic royalist in the 1640s 141
8 Confederate military strategy, 1643-7 158
9 Lost in Rinuccini's shadow: the Irish clergy, 1645-9 176
10 'The modell of its sad afflictions': Henry Burkhead's Tragedy of Cola's Furie 192
11 The social thought of Richard Bellings 212
12 Sir Robert Southwell and the duke of Ormond's reflections on the 1640s 229
13 Donal Cregan: historian 248
Chronology of Events, 1641-9 252
List of Contributors 265
Index 267
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