Manchester University Press
7 News from Ireland
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Hiram Morgan
Abstract
During the Irish wars of the 1590s, printed news on the continent about developments in Ireland emanated from the Roman press of Bernandino Beccari. In Catalonia, grandees with links to court had retreated to Madrid, abandoning their Catalan estates, and now many nobles experienced fresh doubts as their fledgling state moved into the orbit of the French. The Portuguese urgently sought international recognition from their ancient allies, France and England. A Castilian pamphlet from 1657 rehearsed, in tabloid fashion, a set of draconian decrees passed against Irish Catholics by the Cromwellian regime in Ireland, accompanied by the re-publication of a letter from the head of the Franciscans in Ireland. Cromwell declaration of war against Spain in 1655 served to rejuvenate and clarify Spanish views of Ireland and the Irish. The findings on Iberian publications about the Confederate War in Ireland and its aftermath are preliminary and the results merely suggestive.
Abstract
During the Irish wars of the 1590s, printed news on the continent about developments in Ireland emanated from the Roman press of Bernandino Beccari. In Catalonia, grandees with links to court had retreated to Madrid, abandoning their Catalan estates, and now many nobles experienced fresh doubts as their fledgling state moved into the orbit of the French. The Portuguese urgently sought international recognition from their ancient allies, France and England. A Castilian pamphlet from 1657 rehearsed, in tabloid fashion, a set of draconian decrees passed against Irish Catholics by the Cromwellian regime in Ireland, accompanied by the re-publication of a letter from the head of the Franciscans in Ireland. Cromwell declaration of war against Spain in 1655 served to rejuvenate and clarify Spanish views of Ireland and the Irish. The findings on Iberian publications about the Confederate War in Ireland and its aftermath are preliminary and the results merely suggestive.
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
