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The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Hardcover)
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The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Hardcover)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its
myth with the reality. After an evening spent drinking with Irish
conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main
colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root
out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within
days English colonists in Ireland believed that a widespread
massacre of Protestant settlers was taking place. Desperate for
aid, they began to canvass their colleagues in England for help,
claiming that they were surrounded by an evil popish menace bent on
destroying their community. Soon sworn statements, later called the
1641 depositions, confirmed their fears (despite little by way of
eye-witness testimony). In later years, Protestant commentators
could point to the 1641 rebellion as proof of Catholic barbarity
and perfidy. However, as the author demonstrates, despite some of
the outrageous claims made in the depositions, the myth of 1641
became more important than the reality. The aim of this book is to
investigate how the rebellion broke out and whether there was a
meaning in the violence which ensued. It also seeks to understand
how the English administration in Ireland portrayed these events to
the wider world, and to examine whether and how far their claims
were justified. Did they deliberately construct a narrative of
death and destruction that belied what really happened? An obvious,
if overlooked, contextis that of the Atlantic world; and particular
questions asked are whether the English colonists drew upon similar
cultural frameworks to describe atrocities in the Americas; how
this shaped the portrayal of the 1641 rebellion incontemporary
pamphlets; and the effect that this had on the wider Wars of the
Three Kingdoms between England, Ireland and Scotland. Dr Eamon
Darcy is a research assistant in the School of Histories and
Humanities at Trinity College, Dublin.
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