Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe

Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe
Author: Thomas O'Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1148
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This volume presents the results of the most recent scholarly investigation into Irish communities on the Continent in the early modern period. Essays deal not only with the activities of military, political and ecclesiastical migrants in Spain and France but also with Irish merchants in the Low Countries, Irish industrial entrepreneurs in Sweden and Irish diplomats in Saxony. Of particular significance are the synthetic essays that set the results of archival research into rigorous interpretative frameworks based on the latest advances in European and Irish historiography. This ground-breaking collection confirms the centrality of migrants and migrant communities in the evolution of early modern Europe and sets a demanding but exciting agenda for future collaborative work in the field.

Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe

Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754661849

Exploring the contradictory forces shaping women's identities and experiences, this collection examines the possibilities for commonalities and the forces of division between women in early modern Europe. The contributors analyse the critical power of gender to structure identities and experiences, adding new depth to our understanding of early modern women's senses of exclusion and belonging.

Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition

Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
Author: Thomas O'Connor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137465905

This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and opportunities of its burgeoning economy and empire, the incoming Irish fell prey to the Spanish Inquisition. For the inquisitors, the Irish, as vassals of Elizabeth I, were initially viewed as a heretical threat and suffered prosecution for Protestant heresy. However, for most Irish migrants, their dual status as English vassals and loyal Catholics permitted them to adapt quickly to provide brokerage and intermediary services to the Spanish state, mediating informally between it and Protestant jurisdictions, especially England. The Irish were particularly successful in forging an association with the Inquisition to convert incoming Protestant soldiers, merchants and operatives for useful service in Catholic Spain. As both victims and agents of the Inquisition, the Irish emerge as a versatile and complex migrant group. Their activities complicate our view of early modern migration and raise questions about the role of migrant groups and their foreign networks in the core historical narratives of Ireland, Spain and England, and in the history of their connections. Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition throws new light on how the Inquisition worked, not only as an organ of doctrinal police, but also in its unexpected role as a cross-creedal instrument of conversion and assimilation.

Contested Island

Contested Island
Author: S. J. Connolly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199563713

This definitive study of Ireland's transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the country's different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition

Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe

Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521535861

This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.

The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815

The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815
Author: Thomas O'Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Irish presence in England, France, and Spain is the subject of a dozen papers edited by O'Connor (history, National U. of Ireland, Maynooth). The contributors (lecturers and four graduate students in history and a librarian) examine Irish immigration to France based on archival sources there, th

Early Modern Ireland

Early Modern Ireland
Author: Sarah Covington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351242997

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently, and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics, including social, cultural, and political history as well as folklore, medicine, archaeology, and digital humanities, all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps, graphs, tables, and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past, and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken, Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history.

Exiles in a Global City

Exiles in a Global City
Author: Clare Carroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN: 9789004335165

Exiles in a Global City explores how early modern Irish migrants in Rome represented their cultural identities in relation to world-wide Spanish and Roman institutions and focuses on some sources not previously considered by Irish historians.

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880
Author: James Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 878
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 110834075X

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland

Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland
Author: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192643983

The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessional identities in Ireland, as well as a time of significant migration and displacement of population. Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland provides an entirely new perspective on religious change in early modern Ireland by tracing the constant and ubiquitous impact of mobility on the development and maintenance of the island's competing confessional groupings. Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland examines the dialectic between migration and religious adherence, paying particular attention to the pronounced transnational dimension of clerical formation which played a vital role in shaping the competing Catholic, Church of Ireland, and non-conformist clergies. It demonstrates that the religious transformation of the island was mediated by individuals with very significant migratory experiences and the importance of religion in enabling individuals to negotiate the challenges and opportunities created by displacement and settlement in new environments. The volume investigates how more quotidian practices of mobility such as pilgrimage and inter-parochial communions helped to elaborate religious identities and analyses the extraordinary importance of migratory experience in shaping the lives and writings of the authors of key confessional identity texts. Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland demonstrates that Irish society was enormously influenced by migratory experiences and argues that a case study of the island also has important implications for understanding religious change in other areas of Europe and the rest of the world.