Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Kingdom or Colony

This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.

Jane H. Ohlmeyer (Edited by)

9780521157728, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 19 August 2010

310 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Like all the best books, this volume leaves us thirsting for more. It is a very significant contribution to the field, both empirically and methodologically, and deserves a wide readership.' Parliamentary History

This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Within it, distinguished international scholars investigate on the leading political theorists of the day and draw attention to previously neglected writers, Irish Catholics in particular, and overlooked political treatises. Major topics are addressed; the constitutional relationship between England and Ireland and the extent to which Ireland was a kingdom or colony; Ireland's intellectual links with Catholic Europe and the influence of counter-reformation ideology; the place of Irish political thought in its wider 'three kingdoms', imperial and Atlantic contexts. The dramatic impact on political thought of the civil wars of the 1640s and 1688–91 is also examined. The volume as a whole provides an interesting perspective on the formation of early modern Irish identity.

1. Introduction Jane H. Ohlmeyer
Part I. Ireland and England: 2. Patrick Darcy and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain Aidan Clarke
3. Counter-currents in colonial discourse: The political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin Patricia Coughlan
4. Recasting a tradition: William Molyneux and the sources of The Case of Ireland Stated (1698) Patrick Kelly
5. Political ideas and their social contexts in seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie
Part II. Ireland and the Continent: 6. Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch's Cambrensis Eversus (1662) Bernadette Cunningham
7. 'Though hereticks and politicians should misinterpret their good zeale': Political ideology and Catholicism in early modern Ireland Tadhg ó hAnnracháin
8. Gaelic Maccabeanism: the politics of reconciliation Jerrold Casway
Part III. Irish Political Thought and the New British and Irish Histories: 9. Covenanting ideology in seventeenth-century Scotland Allan Macinnes
10. The political economy of Britian and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution David Armitage
11. From ancient constitution to British empire: William Atwood and the imperial crown of England Charles C. Ludington
12. The third kingdom in its history: an afterword J. G. A. Pocock.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]