Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455a
F. Walsh
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455b
Brian Griffin
{"title":"Book Review: Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750–1850 by Richard J. Butler","authors":"Brian Griffin","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41254169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455d
T. Barnard
plying lodging and food to crown forces, pressure on their resources that escalated as the war proceeded, and that left the community exhausted at war’s end. Apart from those contributions regulated by custom and law, they suffered extortion and corruption in their localities from military figures; further, there was resentment that their traditional local control of the military enterprise was passing to English newcomers. The author offers an analysis of the Palesmen’s peaceful response to these impositions, and to their displacement as military defenders of the ancient colony; this response was articulated in a stream of local and individual petitions, and treatises, together with personal lobbying at court by those with means. This is a well-focused study of the range of pressures experienced by the older colonial community during the Nine Years’War. The author does justice to the major dimensions of that crucible: ideological challenges to their loyalist identity, posited by O’Neill’s appeal to participate in a Catholic crusade against a heretical regime, and the administration’s growing questioning of their loyalty; the variety of individual Old English responses to Confederate military pressures on their lands; the major, indeed decisive contribution of the Pale community to the manpower of crown armed forces; the crippling social costs of providing men, food and supplies for those forces; and the growing alienation and resentment at their treatment by the crown’s representatives, and their displacement in military and political service by New English of lesser social status than themselves. The author deploys a sophisticated analysis to explore the multifaceted wartime experience of the Old English community. War intensified the marginalization from the crown of this community, in spite of their deep and unwavering loyalism, in the face of the unprecedented demands which that lengthy conflict imposed, and the administration’s rejection of their claim to loyalty. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nine Years’ War as it impacted socially and militarily on the Pale community, and the challenge that war posed to their identity as the natural defenders of crown rule in Ireland.
{"title":"Book Review: The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation by David Dickson","authors":"T. Barnard","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455d","url":null,"abstract":"plying lodging and food to crown forces, pressure on their resources that escalated as the war proceeded, and that left the community exhausted at war’s end. Apart from those contributions regulated by custom and law, they suffered extortion and corruption in their localities from military figures; further, there was resentment that their traditional local control of the military enterprise was passing to English newcomers. The author offers an analysis of the Palesmen’s peaceful response to these impositions, and to their displacement as military defenders of the ancient colony; this response was articulated in a stream of local and individual petitions, and treatises, together with personal lobbying at court by those with means. This is a well-focused study of the range of pressures experienced by the older colonial community during the Nine Years’War. The author does justice to the major dimensions of that crucible: ideological challenges to their loyalist identity, posited by O’Neill’s appeal to participate in a Catholic crusade against a heretical regime, and the administration’s growing questioning of their loyalty; the variety of individual Old English responses to Confederate military pressures on their lands; the major, indeed decisive contribution of the Pale community to the manpower of crown armed forces; the crippling social costs of providing men, food and supplies for those forces; and the growing alienation and resentment at their treatment by the crown’s representatives, and their displacement in military and political service by New English of lesser social status than themselves. The author deploys a sophisticated analysis to explore the multifaceted wartime experience of the Old English community. War intensified the marginalization from the crown of this community, in spite of their deep and unwavering loyalism, in the face of the unprecedented demands which that lengthy conflict imposed, and the administration’s rejection of their claim to loyalty. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nine Years’ War as it impacted socially and militarily on the Pale community, and the challenge that war posed to their identity as the natural defenders of crown rule in Ireland.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41888247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052462
{"title":"Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Secretary’s Report to the Annual General Meeting, December 18, 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41835414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455e
C. Woods
{"title":"Book Review: Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City Housing Estate in Belfast by Marianne Elliott","authors":"C. Woods","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48087547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455f
M. Coleman
{"title":"Book Review: Ernest Blythe in Ulster: The Making of a Double Agent? by David Fitzpatrick","authors":"M. Coleman","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44918082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455c
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ
with consequent effects on how prisons were constructed, until the idea of the ‘separate’ and ‘silent’ system began to win favour in the 1830s, again with implications for how Irish prisons were built or modified. Butler’s insightful handling of the course of Irish county courthouse and county gaol construction from 1750 to 1850 is supported by over 300 illustrations, many of them copies of sumptuous paintings and architects’ plans, and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.
{"title":"Book Review: The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War 1594–1603 by Ruth A. Canning","authors":"Brian Mac Cuarta SJ","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455c","url":null,"abstract":"with consequent effects on how prisons were constructed, until the idea of the ‘separate’ and ‘silent’ system began to win favour in the 1830s, again with implications for how Irish prisons were built or modified. Butler’s insightful handling of the course of Irish county courthouse and county gaol construction from 1750 to 1850 is supported by over 300 illustrations, many of them copies of sumptuous paintings and architects’ plans, and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47057416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455
A. Holmes
{"title":"Book Review: Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster by Guy Beiner","authors":"A. Holmes","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45813293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455h
Niall Whelehan
grouping, the Invincibles. The assassins themselves gained notoriety but, at the same time, according to O’Donnell in her analysis of broadside ballads surrounding the event, were exalted as ‘self-sacrificing heroes’ (p. 258). O’Donnell’s study of the ballads, as with the above-mentioned investigation of the threatening letters by Dunne, offers a useful popular corrective to analyses of crime and violence that are overly reliant on the perceptions of the administration and middle-class journalists. Indeed, in the final chapter, Crossman’s focus is the subjective nature of perceptions and responses to vagrancy throughout the long nineteenth century. The result of the vagrant act, she argues, was to rubber-stamp the categorisations of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor. In the process, a section of the poor was criminalised, thus ‘penalising the victim rather than addressing the larger economic and social forces that left so many Irish people without regular paid employment or a settled home’ (p. 279). All told, this is a significant contribution to the study of crime and violence in Ireland during the nineteenth century; indeed it deploys methodologies and routes of inquiry that could easily be applied to other centuries. It is, therefore, a highly recommended compendium for those interested in the social history of modern Ireland.
{"title":"Book Review: Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild","authors":"Niall Whelehan","doi":"10.1177/03324893211052455h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211052455h","url":null,"abstract":"grouping, the Invincibles. The assassins themselves gained notoriety but, at the same time, according to O’Donnell in her analysis of broadside ballads surrounding the event, were exalted as ‘self-sacrificing heroes’ (p. 258). O’Donnell’s study of the ballads, as with the above-mentioned investigation of the threatening letters by Dunne, offers a useful popular corrective to analyses of crime and violence that are overly reliant on the perceptions of the administration and middle-class journalists. Indeed, in the final chapter, Crossman’s focus is the subjective nature of perceptions and responses to vagrancy throughout the long nineteenth century. The result of the vagrant act, she argues, was to rubber-stamp the categorisations of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor. In the process, a section of the poor was criminalised, thus ‘penalising the victim rather than addressing the larger economic and social forces that left so many Irish people without regular paid employment or a settled home’ (p. 279). All told, this is a significant contribution to the study of crime and violence in Ireland during the nineteenth century; indeed it deploys methodologies and routes of inquiry that could easily be applied to other centuries. It is, therefore, a highly recommended compendium for those interested in the social history of modern Ireland.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-25DOI: 10.1177/03324893211039208
David Heffernan
The closing years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) saw a hardening of attitudes among many of the New English in Ireland towards the Irish and Old English communities there. Historians have concentrated on a number of works which exemplify this attitude, notably Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland. This article focuses on an earlier proponent of this outlook, a wandering lawyer, Andrew Trollope. In the 1580s, Trollope composed two extensive treatises on Ireland which contain some of the most vituperative attacks written by a Tudor commentator on the Irish, their character, religion and society. Often commented upon, though never examined in detail, this article provides the first in-depth assessment of Trollope’s writings.
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