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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Page 183
... clergy in the north were never more numerous , more industrious , and more learned than at this time . ... Except in one diocese , I hardly found any liable to exception . ' In Kildare , Leighlin , and Ossory , which he visited in his ...
... clergy in the north were never more numerous , more industrious , and more learned than at this time . ... Except in one diocese , I hardly found any liable to exception . ' In Kildare , Leighlin , and Ossory , which he visited in his ...
Page 288
... clergy of the established church , along with magistrates , mayors , and other officials , to submit a return of the priests , mass houses , friaries , nunneries , and Catholic schools in their respective districts . Two things are ...
... clergy of the established church , along with magistrates , mayors , and other officials , to submit a return of the priests , mass houses , friaries , nunneries , and Catholic schools in their respective districts . Two things are ...
Page 299
... clergy to take the oath of abjuration imposed on them in 1709 and their consequent loss of legal recognition appear to have been taken by some Protestant clergy as a signal to begin missionary work among the congrega- tions these ...
... clergy to take the oath of abjuration imposed on them in 1709 and their consequent loss of legal recognition appear to have been taken by some Protestant clergy as a signal to begin missionary work among the congrega- tions these ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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