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This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.
List of contents
Introduction: the confederate wars revisited - Patrick Little
1 Holding on: the earl of Cork's Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641-43 - David Edwards
2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642 - David Brown
3 'To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections': the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643-46 - Aoife Duignan
4 'Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined': Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644-45 - Andrew Robinson
5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642-48 - Coleman A. Dennehy
6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642-48 - Bríd McGrath
7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643-47 - Patrick Little
8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards, and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649 - Kevin Forkan
9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics - Eamon Darcy
10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft, and the 'deluded and seduced' people of Ireland - John Morrill
Index
About the author
Patrick Little is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust in London
Summary
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell. -- .
