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 87
... recent writing on mainstream Irish politics in the mid - eighteenth century that seems to go beyond mere healthy cynicism . One recent commentator , for example , draws on a single case study of profiteering in the revenue service in ...
... recent writing on mainstream Irish politics in the mid - eighteenth century that seems to go beyond mere healthy cynicism . One recent commentator , for example , draws on a single case study of profiteering in the revenue service in ...
Page 130
... recent historical work , which has been to emphasize just how limited was the control which the Irish landlord class of this period could exercise over any part of the workings of agrarian society . * 88 The complexity of rural social ...
... recent historical work , which has been to emphasize just how limited was the control which the Irish landlord class of this period could exercise over any part of the workings of agrarian society . * 88 The complexity of rural social ...
Page 228
... recent writing , where two notorious cases , those of Sir James Cotter in 1720 and Nicholas Sheehy in 1766 , have been cited as evidence of a system of justice readily perverted to political and sectarian purposes . 124 There is no ...
... recent writing , where two notorious cases , those of Sir James Cotter in 1720 and Nicholas Sheehy in 1766 , have been cited as evidence of a system of justice readily perverted to political and sectarian purposes . 124 There is no ...
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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