The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms write by Eamon Darcy. This book was released on 2015. The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality. After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a widespread massacre of Protestant settlers was taking place. Desperate for aid, they began to canvass their colleagues in England for help, claiming that they were surrounded by an evil popish menace bent on destroying their community. Soon sworn statements, later called the 1641 depositions, confirmed their fears (despite little by way of eye-witness testimony). In later years, Protestant commentators could point to the 1641 rebellion as proof of Catholic barbarity and perfidy. However, as the author demonstrates, despite some of the outrageous claims made in the depositions, the myth of 1641 became more important than the reality. The aim of this book is to investigate how the rebellion broke out and whether there was a meaning in the violence which ensued. It also seeks to understand how the English administration in Ireland portrayed these events to the wider world, and to examine whether and how far their claims were justified. Did they deliberately construct a narrative of death and destruction that belied what really happened? An obvious, if overlooked, contextis that of the Atlantic world; and particular questions asked are whether the English colonists drew upon similar cultural frameworks to describe atrocities in the Americas; how this shaped the portrayal of the 1641 rebellion incontemporary pamphlets; and the effect that this had on the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms between England, Ireland and Scotland. EAMON DARCY is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow working at Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland.
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 write by M. Perceval-Maxwell. This book was released on 1994-03-31. Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perceval-Maxwell gives considerable attention to the structure of the Irish parliament in 1640 and 1641 and the decisions made by that body in both the Commons and the Lords. He argues that initially there was a broad consensus between Protestant and Catholic members of parliament on the way Ireland should be governed and on constitutional matters relating to the three kingdoms, but that this consensus was not shared by those who controlled the Irish council. He places particular emphasis on negotiations between members of the Irish parliament who were sent to England and the English council, and on the way events in Ireland influenced both English and Scottish opinion. In this context, the army raised in Ireland to counter the Scottish covenanters, and the failure to ship this army abroad before the rebellion broke out, were of crucial importance. Perceval-Maxwell contends, contrary to the opinion of other historians, that Charles I was not primarily responsible for this failure and was not plotting to use this army against the English parliament. The author explains the plotting that actually took place and provides an account of the initial months of the rebellion as it spread from county to county. In conclusion he reveals how the rebellion was perceived in England and Scotland and how these perceptions contributed to the outbreak of civil war in England. Why the Irish rebellion was important outside of its Irish context is well known but this book is the first to deal with how it became significant. It will be of particular interest to British as well as Irish historians.
1641 Depositions
1641 Depositions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 1641 Depositions write by Aidan Clarke. This book was released on 2014. 1641 Depositions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies, mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity, and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents. This body of material is unparalleled anywhere in early modern Europe. It provides a unique source of information for the causes and events surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth- century Ireland, England and Scotland. In total, 19,010 manuscript pages in 31 bound volumes held at Trinity College Dublin have been transcribed and are arranged for publication in 12 volumes from 2014 onwards. The depositions are available online at www.1641.tcd.ie ."--Provided by publisher.
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 write by I.J. Gentles. This book was released on 2014-06-06. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ian Gentles provides a riveting, in-depth analysis of the battles and sieges, as well as the political and religious struggles that underpinned them. Based on extensive archival and secondary research he undertakes the first sustained attempt to arrive at global estimates of the human and economic cost of the wars. The many actors in the drama are appraised with subtlety. Charles I, while partly the author of his own misfortune, is shown to have been at moments an inspirational leader. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms is a sophisticated, comprehensive, exciting account of the sixteen years that were the hinge of British and Irish history. It encompasses politics and war, personalities and ideas, embedding them all in a coherent and absorbing narrative.
The Irish Rebellion of 1641
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Rebellion of 1641 write by Lord Ernest William Hamiliton. This book was released on 1920. The Irish Rebellion of 1641 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
