3 The ‘1641 massacres’
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Aidan Clarke
Abstract
The '1641 depositions' have attracted a good deal of attention in recent years as the richness of the information they contain about all aspects of Irish society in the period has been recognised. The examinations taken in the 1650s were concerned specifically with the collection of evidence for the prosecution of those responsible for murders and massacres. David Hume's history was published in 1754, thirteen years after a seminal event in the historiography of the massacres. Sir John Temple's treatment of the massacre theme derived from the commissioners' collection of depositions or, more exactly, largely from the two sets of excerpts that they had compiled in the Remonstrance and its sequel. For the first time, the depositions became available for study and the first scholar to take the opportunity to investigate them in detail was Ferdinando Warner, a Church of England cleric.
Abstract
The '1641 depositions' have attracted a good deal of attention in recent years as the richness of the information they contain about all aspects of Irish society in the period has been recognised. The examinations taken in the 1650s were concerned specifically with the collection of evidence for the prosecution of those responsible for murders and massacres. David Hume's history was published in 1754, thirteen years after a seminal event in the historiography of the massacres. Sir John Temple's treatment of the massacre theme derived from the commissioners' collection of depositions or, more exactly, largely from the two sets of excerpts that they had compiled in the Remonstrance and its sequel. For the first time, the depositions became available for study and the first scholar to take the opportunity to investigate them in detail was Ferdinando Warner, a Church of England cleric.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
