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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... militia . And indeed , even Orrery , the main advocate of a militia force , believed that only ' old Protestants ' should be allowed to serve in it.58 Repeated purges of the Irish army , along with the termination of the crisis created ...
... militia . And indeed , even Orrery , the main advocate of a militia force , believed that only ' old Protestants ' should be allowed to serve in it.58 Repeated purges of the Irish army , along with the termination of the crisis created ...
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... militia and the contesting of elections . Service in the militia was in many ways a perfect expression of vertical social bonds . Tenants and other dependants enlisted , not under an impersonal commander , but under their landlord and ...
... militia and the contesting of elections . Service in the militia was in many ways a perfect expression of vertical social bonds . Tenants and other dependants enlisted , not under an impersonal commander , but under their landlord and ...
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... militia companies seem to have had a permanent existence and to have been taken seriously as a peacekeeping force . Elsewhere there are occasional indications that individual companies continued to function at some level , but little to ...
... militia companies seem to have had a permanent existence and to have been taken seriously as a peacekeeping force . Elsewhere there are occasional indications that individual companies continued to function at some level , but little to ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760 Sean J. Connolly No preview available - 1995 |
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