Manchester University Press
2 Irish Jacobites in early modern Europe
Abstract
In the 300 years between English re-conquest of Ireland and the Act of Union, hundreds and thousands of Irish men and women flooded into Europe and North America. As well as impacting upon their host nations as soldiers, clerics, diplomats, teachers, writers, merchants, bankers, vagrants and outlaws, many of these men and women retained close contact with, and affection for, their native patrimony. Moreover, as royalists, Jacobites and republicans, they would play a crucial role in the emergence of various Irish nationalist, royalist and republican identities. Their various and varying careers and activities followed a broad trajectory testifying to their adaptability, mobility, and political and cultural fluidity. Their testimonies, trials and tribulations also shed valuable light on the exiles’ balance of political and confessional loyalties with their duties to their adopted countries. Traditionally, historians of the Irish diaspora have tended to prioritise the Irish presence in the French, Spanish, Imperial and American service, although more recent work has shed light on Irish military, socio-economic and mercantile networks in Northern Europe, the Baltic States and Russia. Although informed by recent research on Irish exiles in early modern Europe, this chapter moves discussion on from military history to an engagement with identity and ideology, particularly Catholicism, royalism, Jacobitism, nationalism and republicanism.
Abstract
In the 300 years between English re-conquest of Ireland and the Act of Union, hundreds and thousands of Irish men and women flooded into Europe and North America. As well as impacting upon their host nations as soldiers, clerics, diplomats, teachers, writers, merchants, bankers, vagrants and outlaws, many of these men and women retained close contact with, and affection for, their native patrimony. Moreover, as royalists, Jacobites and republicans, they would play a crucial role in the emergence of various Irish nationalist, royalist and republican identities. Their various and varying careers and activities followed a broad trajectory testifying to their adaptability, mobility, and political and cultural fluidity. Their testimonies, trials and tribulations also shed valuable light on the exiles’ balance of political and confessional loyalties with their duties to their adopted countries. Traditionally, historians of the Irish diaspora have tended to prioritise the Irish presence in the French, Spanish, Imperial and American service, although more recent work has shed light on Irish military, socio-economic and mercantile networks in Northern Europe, the Baltic States and Russia. Although informed by recent research on Irish exiles in early modern Europe, this chapter moves discussion on from military history to an engagement with identity and ideology, particularly Catholicism, royalism, Jacobitism, nationalism and republicanism.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vii
- Contributors viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Reconceptualising diaspora 20
- 2 Irish Jacobites in early modern Europe 56
- 3 Diasporic or distinct? 100
- 4 An imperial, utopian and ‘visible’ diaspora 136
- 5 Emigrants and exiles 177
- 6 Partners in empire 209
- 7 The Welsh diaspora 244
- 8 The Cornish diaspora, 1815–1914 280
- Conclusion 314
- Index 317
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vii
- Contributors viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Reconceptualising diaspora 20
- 2 Irish Jacobites in early modern Europe 56
- 3 Diasporic or distinct? 100
- 4 An imperial, utopian and ‘visible’ diaspora 136
- 5 Emigrants and exiles 177
- 6 Partners in empire 209
- 7 The Welsh diaspora 244
- 8 The Cornish diaspora, 1815–1914 280
- Conclusion 314
- Index 317
