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Ireland: 1641: Contexts and Reactions
Dr. Micheal O Siochru (Ed.)
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Description for Ireland: 1641: Contexts and Reactions
Hardback. This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts. Editor(s): O Siochru, Dr. Micheal; Ohlmeyer, Jane. Series Editor(s): Edwards, David. Series: Studies in Early Modern Ireland. Num Pages: 304 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 644.
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. The original ... Read more
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. The original ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Studies in Early Modern Ireland
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088179
SKU
V9780719088179
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About Dr. Micheal O Siochru (Ed.)
Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin Micheal O Siochru is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin -- .
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