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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... concern to Irish Protestants . The rise to new prominence of the Irish parliament began in 1692. William III and his ministers had been under no obligation to summon the assembly that met in the autumn of that year . Indeed , there had ...
... concern to Irish Protestants . The rise to new prominence of the Irish parliament began in 1692. William III and his ministers had been under no obligation to summon the assembly that met in the autumn of that year . Indeed , there had ...
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... concerned at taking the oath of allegiance , which the law of nature and the common practice of all nations allows me to take ... concern over 62 Dartmouth to Ormond , 6 Apr. 1711 ( Dartmouth Papers , D ( W ) 1778 / III / 0 / 10 , 82–4 ) ...
... concerned at taking the oath of allegiance , which the law of nature and the common practice of all nations allows me to take ... concern over 62 Dartmouth to Ormond , 6 Apr. 1711 ( Dartmouth Papers , D ( W ) 1778 / III / 0 / 10 , 82–4 ) ...
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... concern with the necessity of promoting the conversion of the Catholic population consistently played at least some part in Irish Protestant thinking . But how is the sig- nificance of that concern to be assessed ? There is the obvious ...
... concern with the necessity of promoting the conversion of the Catholic population consistently played at least some part in Irish Protestant thinking . But how is the sig- nificance of that concern to be assessed ? There is the obvious ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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