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The late 17th and early 18th century saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. The author examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland which emerges from his analysis was essentially a pre-industrial society in which the dominance of a landed elite depended on maintaining the balance between coercion, deference and an absence of credible pretenders to power; in which the ties of patronage and citizenship were often more important then horizontal bonds of shared economic or social position; and in which religion remained a central part of personal and political motivation. This book should be of interest to scholars and students of early modern and modern social, religious and political British and Irish history, historians of colonial societies and specialists in 18th-century studies.

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Author:   S. J. Connolly
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.736kg
ISBN:  

9780198201182

ISBN 10:   0198201184
Pages:   357
Publication Date:   01 July 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 A new Ireland: December 1659 - ""a nation born in a day""; settlement and explanation; a foreign jurisdiction; papists and fanatics; counter-revolution defeated. Part 2 An elite and its world: uneven development; gentlemen and others; manners. Part 3 The structure of politics: a company of madmen - the politics of party 1691-1741; little employments - smiles, good dinners; politics and the people. Part 4 Relationships: kingdoms; nations; communities; orders. Part 5 The inventions of men in the worship of God - religion and the churches: numbers; catholics; dissenters; churchmen; Christians. Part 6 Law and the maintenance of order: resources; the limits of order; the rule of law; views from below - disaffection and the threat of rebellion; views from above - perception of Catholic threat. Part 7 ""Reasonable Inconveniences"" - the theory and practice of the penal laws: ""Raw head and bloody bones"" - parliamentary management and penal legislation; debate; the conversion of the natives; Protestant ascendancy? the consequences of the penal laws."

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