The Scots In Early Stuart Ireland Union and separation in two kingdoms [Hardcover]

By exploring Irish-Scottish connections during 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 for English, Scots and Irish. 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.

1 Introduction: Union and Separation - David Edwards

2 Scottish officials and secular government in Early Stuart Ireland - David Edwards

3 'Scottish peers' in seventeenth-century Ireland - Jane Ohlmeyer

4 Scottish settlement and society in Plantation Ulster, 1610-1640 - William Roulston

5 Scottish Protestant clergy and the origins of dissent in Ireland - Alan Ford

6 Scots Catholics in Ulster, 1610-1641 - Brian MacCuarta

7 Confessionalization and clan cohesion: Ireland's contribution to Scottish Catholic renewal in the seventeenth century - R. Scott Spurlock

8 The Irish Franciscan mission to the Highlands and Island - Jason Harris

9 The Scottish response to the 1641 rebellion in Connacht: The case of Sir Frederick Hamilton - Aoife Duignan

10 The Scots of Ireland and the English Republic -Robert Armstrong

Index

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