The Scots in early Stuart Ireland

The Scots in early Stuart Ireland
Author: David Edwards
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784996602

Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603–60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England’s Anglicising influence in the northern and western ‘British Isles’ and the often slight basis on which the Stuart pursuit of a new ‘British’ consciousness operated. Regarding the Anglo-Scottish relationship, it was chiefly in Ireland that the English and Scots intermingled after 1603, with a variety of consequences, often destabilising. The importance of the Gaelic sphere in Irish-Scottish connections also receives much greater attention here than in previous accounts. This Gaedhealtacht played a central role in the transmission of religious radicalism, both Catholic and Protestant, in Ireland and Scotland, ultimately leading to political crisis and revolution within the British Isles.

The King's Irishmen

The King's Irishmen
Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1843839253

A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II