2. Distress and Great Necessity: The Experience of Survival in 1641

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables vi
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Prelude: Survivors and Victims 1
7. 1. Introduction: Irish Relief and British Problems 9
8. 2. Distress and Great Necessity: The Experience of Survival in 1641 32
9. 3. The Hand of God and the Works of Man: Narrations of Survival 57
10. 4. Imagining the Rebellion: Atrocity, Anti-Popery, and the Tracts of 1641 76
11. 5. ‘A World of Misery’: The International Significance of the 1641 Rebellion 89
12. 6. Many Distressed Irish: Refugees and the Problem of Local Order 104
13. 7. Local Charity: Contributions to the Irish Cause 119
14. 8. Hard and Lamentable Decisions: The Distribution and Decline of Irish Relief 143
15. Conclusion 161
16. Bibliography 165
17. Index 185