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The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 (Hardcover)
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The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 (Hardcover)
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Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects
of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland,
and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the
nobility. A valuable insight into the political and material world
of Ireland's leading aristocratic family. HISTORY For much of their
lives the two dukes of Ormonde dominated public events in Ireland,
where they served the English sovereign as viceroy five times; they
were also powerful presences in the Stuart court in England, and
commanded armies both in Ireland and Europe. Later, they spent long
periods on the continent as travellers and exiles. Yetdespite their
importance in the public life of the age, neither duke has been the
subject of a full modern biography, a gap which this collection of
essays aims to fill, using key episodes and phases in the Ormondes'
careers to investigate the larger picture. The dukes' lives as
great nobles, landowners and converts to Protestantism raise
problems specific to Ireland, but they also exemplify the
predicament of nobles elsewhere in Europe. A particular focusis on
the worlds that they and their wives created, often innovative and
always dazzling, and on the clienteles who looked to them for
preferment and on which a part of the Ormondes' political weight
rested. Throughout, much newlight is cast on such vexed questions
as the troubled and constantly changing relationship between
Ireland and England, between public and private interests, and the
roles of women. Dr TOBY BARNARD teaches at the University of
Oxford. Contributors: G.E. AYLMER, T.C. BARNARD, EVELINE
CRUICKSHANKS, DAVID EDWARDS, JANE FENLON, RAYMOND GILLESPIE, DAVID
HAYTON, PATRICK LITTLE, RENE MOULINAS, EAMONN - CIARDHA, NATHALIE
GENET ROUFFIAC
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