6 Out of the blue
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David Edwards
Abstract
Irish historians sometimes refer to the period 1603 to 1641 as the 'Early Stuart Peace'. In Ireland, the advent of the Stuart monarchy coincided with the end of a major conflict, the Nine Years War. Besides the viceroyalty, held by ex-soldiers from 1603 to 1622, veterans of the Elizabethan wars controlled the provincial lord presidencies in Munster and Connacht during these years. The origins of the Irish Catholic rebellion of 1641 are contentious, though not nearly as contentious as the scale of the alleged massacre of Protestant settlers which ensued. By the time of the Ulster Plantation, regular sittings of county courts took place in every shire on the island, overseen by the crown judges on circuit. A major increase in the royal garrison, to the levels desired by Wentworth, might have finally broken the pattern of persistent local rebellion that had confronted the Dublin government for over a generation.
Abstract
Irish historians sometimes refer to the period 1603 to 1641 as the 'Early Stuart Peace'. In Ireland, the advent of the Stuart monarchy coincided with the end of a major conflict, the Nine Years War. Besides the viceroyalty, held by ex-soldiers from 1603 to 1622, veterans of the Elizabethan wars controlled the provincial lord presidencies in Munster and Connacht during these years. The origins of the Irish Catholic rebellion of 1641 are contentious, though not nearly as contentious as the scale of the alleged massacre of Protestant settlers which ensued. By the time of the Ulster Plantation, regular sittings of county courts took place in every shire on the island, overseen by the crown judges on circuit. A major increase in the royal garrison, to the levels desired by Wentworth, might have finally broken the pattern of persistent local rebellion that had confronted the Dublin government for over a generation.
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
