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Seventeenth-Century Ireland Bibliography

 

A. Britain

 

A short up-to-date overview:

 

Jenny Wormald (ed.), The seventeenth century (Short Oxford History of the British

            Isles, 2008)

 

An outstanding, but very long, study of the civil wars:

 

Austin Woolrych, Britain in Revolution 1625-60 (Oxford University Press, 2004)

 

Still the best synthesis on the Glorious Revolution:

 

W.A. Speck, Reluctant revolutionaries: Englishmen and the revolution of 1688 (OUP,

            1988)

 

Two useful short think pieces:

 

Angus McInnes, ‘When was the English revolution?’, History, 27 (1982), 377-92

Lawrence Stone, ‘The bourgeois revolution of seventeenth-century England

            revisited’, Past & Present, 109 (1985)

 

B: Ireland

 

New text books:

 

Raymond Gillespie, Seventeenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 2006) – the case

            for ‘normalcy’.

Padraig Lenihan, Consolidating conquest: Ireland 1603-1727 (Longman, 2007) –   more traditional in approach.

 

Two very long surveys:

 

S.J. Connolly, Contested island: Ireland 1460-1630 (OUP, 2007)

S.J. Connolly, Divided kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 (OUP, 2008)

 

The latest big book:

 

Nicholas Canny, Making Ireland British 1580-1650 (OUP, 2003)

 

Ulster Plantation

 

Philip Robinson, The plantation of Ulster (1984; reprint, UHF, 2000) – emphasises

            geography and environment over formal plantation.

W.J. Smyth, Map-making, landscapes and memory: a geography of colonial and

            early-modern Ireland c.1530-1750 (Cork University Press, 2006) – restatesthe colonial perspective.

 

Violence

 

David Edwards, Padraig Lenihan & Clodagh Tait (eds), Age of Atrocity

            Violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland  (Four Courts Press, 2007)

 

Religion

 

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Catholic Reformation in Ireland (OUP, 2001)

Brian MacCuarta, Catholic revival in the north of Ireland 1603-41 (Four Courts Press, 2007)

Alan Ford, The Protestant Reformation in Ireland 1590-1641 (Four Courts Press, 1997)

 

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