Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide-ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien regime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on the ramshackle apparatus of coercion than on complex structures of deference and mutual accommodation, along with the absence of credible challengers to the dominance of a landed elite; in which the ties of patronage and clientship were often more important than horizontal bonds of shared economic or social position; and in which religion remained a central part of personal and political motivation. |
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... Galway was ' wholly ' in Catholic hands ; over forty years later the city's trade was still carried on mainly by Catholics , who ' are jealous of others coming into any share with them ' . In Limerick in the 1750s a Catholic priest ...
... Galway was ' wholly ' in Catholic hands ; over forty years later the city's trade was still carried on mainly by Catholics , who ' are jealous of others coming into any share with them ' . In Limerick in the 1750s a Catholic priest ...
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... Galway . At the same time there was a conscious desire to avoid overreaction . On 7 April , as soon as the crisis was over , those who had surrendered themselves were released on bail . The Catholics who had been turned out of Limerick ...
... Galway . At the same time there was a conscious desire to avoid overreaction . On 7 April , as soon as the crisis was over , those who had surrendered themselves were released on bail . The Catholics who had been turned out of Limerick ...
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... Galway 301 Freney , James , highwayman and author 210 , 225 Galway 45 , 69 , 115 , 126 , 148 , 239 , 253 Galway , Co. 211–12 , 215 , 218 , 219 , 225 , 247 see also Iar Connacht Galway , Henri de Ruvigny , earl of 302 Gardiner , Luke 64 ...
... Galway 301 Freney , James , highwayman and author 210 , 225 Galway 45 , 69 , 115 , 126 , 148 , 239 , 253 Galway , Co. 211–12 , 215 , 218 , 219 , 225 , 247 see also Iar Connacht Galway , Henri de Ruvigny , earl of 302 Gardiner , Luke 64 ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
Copyright | |
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