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New Gill History of Ireland: Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Seventeenth-Century Ireland
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By: Raymond Gillespie
Publisher: Gill
Published: October 2006
Pages: 360
Categories: Humanities
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780717139460
ASIN: 0717139468

A groundbreaking interpretation. In Ireland, the seventeenth century was a war zone, but it was also about politics, about wheeling and dealing. In the end, politics failed and Raymond Gillespie explains why. He also explains how the templates laid down in the seventeenth century guided Irish life until the outbreak of World War I. Well-established ideas of monarchy, social hierarchy and honour were under pressure in a fast-changing world. Political, religious, social and economic circumstances were all in flux. The common ambition of every faction was the creation of a usable focus of governance. Thus plantations, the constitutional experiments of Wentworth in the 1630s, the Confederation of the 1640s, the republican 1650s and the royalist reaction of the latter part of the century can be seen not simply as episodes in colonial domination but as part of an on-going attempt to find a modus vivendi within Ireland, often compromised by external influences. This book is not simply a narrative history of politics in seventeenth-century Ireland. It is a social history of governance that, while dealing with the main political, religious and economic developments, has at its interpretative core the process of making a new society out of competing factions. Professor Raymond Gillespie teaches in the Department of Modern History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of several academic books and papers on social change in early modern Ireland.

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