Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in Ireland or living in exile.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts details how authors extolled the merits of their progenitors, offered hope and guidance to the particular audience they addressed, and disputed opposing narratives. The author shows how competing scholars, whether contributing to vernacular histories or empirical studies, became transfixed by the traumatic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they sought to explain either how stability had finally been achieved, or how the descendants of those who had been wronged might secure redress.
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Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in Ireland or living in exile.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts details how authors extolled the merits of their progenitors, offered hope and guidance to the particular audience they addressed, and disputed opposing narratives. The author shows how competing scholars, whether contributing to vernacular histories or empirical studies, became transfixed by the traumatic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they sought to explain either how stability had finally been achieved, or how the descendants of those who had been wronged might secure redress.
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Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

by Nicholas Canny
Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

by Nicholas Canny

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Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in Ireland or living in exile.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts details how authors extolled the merits of their progenitors, offered hope and guidance to the particular audience they addressed, and disputed opposing narratives. The author shows how competing scholars, whether contributing to vernacular histories or empirical studies, became transfixed by the traumatic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they sought to explain either how stability had finally been achieved, or how the descendants of those who had been wronged might secure redress.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198911425
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2024
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 9.50(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Canny, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Galway


Now a Professor Emeritus, Nicholas Canny was Professor of History at the NUI Galway, Founding Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (OUP, 2001), which won the Irish Historical Research Prize, 2001, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (OUP, 2011), and The Origins of Empire (OUP, 1998) amongst other publications.

Table of Contents

1. The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Writing of Ireland's History in the Sixteenth Century2. Composing counter-narratives in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries3. New Histories for a New Ireland4. The 1641 Rebellion and Ireland's Contested Pasts5. Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Histories of Ireland During the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries6. Enlightenment Historians of Ireland and Their Critics7. The Vernacular Alternative: Catholic and Protestant Popular Reconsiderations of Ireland's Early Modern History During the Age of Revolutions8. Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past: The Young Ireland Agenda, Dissident Views, and the Catholic Alternative9. Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past During the Later Nineteenth Century10. Fresh Unionist Reappraisals of Ireland's History During the Early Modern Centuries11. The Birth and Early Demise of a Liberal View of Ireland's Early Modern Past12. The Failure of the Imagination Concerning Ireland's Past
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