Ireland in crisis: War, politics and religion, 1641–50

✍ Scribed by Patrick Little (editor)

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Irish History
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Series editors’ preface
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: the confederate wars revisited
Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43
The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642
‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45
The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48
The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48
The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649
The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics
Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland
Index