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In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland’s most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way.
Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In fact, Professor Gillespie argues that the seventeenth century was a uniquely creative moment in Ireland’s history, as the various social and political groups within the country tried to forge new compromises. He also shows how and why they failed to do so.
Well-established ideas of monarchy, social hierarchy and honour were under pressure in a fast-changing world. Political, religious, social and economic circumstances were all in flux. The common ambition of every faction was the creation of a usable focus of governance. Thus plantations, the constitutional experiments of Wentworth in the 1630s, the Confederation of the 1640s, the republican 1650s and the royalist reaction of the latter part of the century can be seen not simply as episodes in colonial domination but as part of an on-going attempt to find a modus vivendi within Ireland, often compromised by external influences.
This book is not simply a narrative history of politics in seventeenth-century Ireland. It is a social history of governance that, while dealing with the main political, religious and economic developments, has at its interpretative core the process of making a new society out of competing factions.
- Introduction: Seventeenth-Century Ireland and its Questions
- Distributing Power, 1603–20
- Money, Land and Status, 1620–32
- The Challenge to the Old World, 1632–9
- Destabilising Ireland, 1639–42
- The Quest for a Settlement, 1642–51
- Cromwellian Reconstruction, 1651–9
- Winning the Peace, 1659–69
- Good King Charles’s Golden Days, 1669–85
- The King Enjoys His Own Again, 1685–91
Part I. An Old World Made New
Part II. The Breaking of the Old Order
Part III. A New World Restored
Epilogue: Post-War Reconstruction, 1691–5
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Raymond Gillespie
Professor Raymond Gillespie teaches in the Department of Modern History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of several academic books and papers on social change in early modern Ireland.
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