4 1641 in a colonial context
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Nicholas Canny
Abstract
This chapter considers the Irish insurrection of 1641 in a colonial context. It focuses on how negative depictions of Native Americans constructed by Elizabethan adventurers were sometimes evocative of what English adventurers had to say of the social and political mores of the populations of Ireland. The chapter discusses how English adventurers in Ireland sometimes likened what they described as the 'manners' of the Gaelic Irish to the social practices they associated with the native population of America. It describes whether the rhetorical representation of people in negative or dismissive fashion made it easier for some English adventurers to inflict cruel or extra-legal actions upon elements of the Gaelic Irish and Native American populations. The chapter extends the D. B. Quinn discourse into the seventeenth century. It reopens the debate over the context that English people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries considered appropriate for discussing the condition of Ireland.
Abstract
This chapter considers the Irish insurrection of 1641 in a colonial context. It focuses on how negative depictions of Native Americans constructed by Elizabethan adventurers were sometimes evocative of what English adventurers had to say of the social and political mores of the populations of Ireland. The chapter discusses how English adventurers in Ireland sometimes likened what they described as the 'manners' of the Gaelic Irish to the social practices they associated with the native population of America. It describes whether the rhetorical representation of people in negative or dismissive fashion made it easier for some English adventurers to inflict cruel or extra-legal actions upon elements of the Gaelic Irish and Native American populations. The chapter extends the D. B. Quinn discourse into the seventeenth century. It reopens the debate over the context that English people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries considered appropriate for discussing the condition of Ireland.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
