The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion

ISBN-13: 9781138664555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Annaleigh Margey;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

The 1641 Depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern Irish history. This essay collection is part of a major project run by Trinity College, Dublin, using the depositions to investigate the life and culture of seventeenth-century Ireland.

Spis treści

Introduction, Eamon Darcy, Annaleigh Margey, Elaine Murphy; Chapter 1 Owen Connolly, Hugh Og Macmahon and the 1641 Rebellion in Clogher, Andrew Robinson; Chapter 2 What Do the Depositions Say About the Outbreak of the 1641 Rising?, David Finnegan; Chapter 3 Mapping the Outbreak of the Rebellion: Robberies in County Cavan (October 1641), Ciska Neyts; Chapter 4 Mount Taragh's Triumph: Commitment and Organization in the Early Stages of the 1641 Rebellion in Meath, Bríd McGrath; Chapter 5 'In Monies and Other Requisites': The 1641 Depositions and the Social Role of Credit in Early Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Patricia Stapleton; Chapter 6 1641 and the Ulster Plantation Towns, Annaleigh Margey; Chapter 7 The Social Order of the 1641 Rebellion, Eamon Darcy; Chapter 8 'Rogues, Villaines and Base Trulls': Constructing the 'Other' in the 1641 Depositions, Nicci MacLeod; Chapter 9 'Holy War'? Religion, Ethnicity and Massacre During the Irish Rebellion 1641-2, Inga Jones; Chapter 10 Siege of Duncannon Fort in 1641 and 1642, Elaine Murphy; Chapter 11 1641 and the Shaping of Cromwellian Ireland, John Cunningham; Chapter 12 The Trial of Lord Maguire and 'Print Culture', Charlene Adair; Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Rebellion in Text and Context, John Morrill;

O autorze

Eamon Darcy is an assistant professor in the department of history in Trinity College Dublin. In 2009 he completed his Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) funded PhD on the topic of 'Pogroms, Politics and Print: the 1641 Rebellion in Contemporary Print Culture'. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library, California and the Folger Library, Washington. He is currently revising his thesis for publication., Annaleigh Margey was an assistant editor on the 1641 Depositions Project for the duration of the project. She is currently a research fellow on 'The Landed Estates of Ireland Project' in the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Landed Estates at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She previously worked as the Clothworkers' Company fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her early research focused on the history of cartography in early modern Ireland, for which she held an IRCHSS postdoctoral fellowship and a J. B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Her book, Mapping Ireland, c. 1550-1640: A Catalogue of the Early Modem Manuscript Maps of Ireland Including Maps relating to Plantation, will be published in 2012., Elaine Murphy is currently a research associate at the University of Cambridge on the Oliver Cromwell Project. She was an assistant editor on the 1641 Depositions Project from 2007-10. She is the editor of A Calendar of Material relating to Ireland from the High Court of Admiralty Files, 1641-1660, which was published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2011.