Reading Lists
Recommended readings for Lecture 1
Toby Barnard, ‘1641: a bibliographical essay’ in Brian MacCuarta (ed.), Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).
Toby Barnard, Parlour entertainments in an evening? Histories of the 1640s.’ in Micheál O’Siochrú (ed.), Kingdoms in crisis: Ireland in the 1640s (Dublin, 2001).
Jason McElligott, ‘Cromwell, Drogheda and the abuse of Irish history’, Bullán: an Irish Studies Journal, vi (2001)
Brian Walker, ‘1641, 1689, 1690 and all that: the Unionist sense of history’, Irish Review (Summer, 1992)
Gabriel Doherty, ‘National identity and the study of Irish History’, English Historical Review, (1996).
Recommended readings for Lecture 2
T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, (eds), New History of Ireland iii: early modern Ireland (Oxford, 1976) especially chapters 4, 5 and 6.
N.P. Canny, ‘The Flight of the Earls, 1607’, Irish Historical Studies, xvii (1971), pp 380-99.
Steven G. Ellis, ‘The collapse of the Gaelic world, 1450-1650’, Irish Historical Studies, xxxi, (1999).
Contemporary extracts from the State Papers showing; (1) Contemporary government accounts of the Flight of the Earls. (2) Tyrone and Tyrconnell’s declaration of grievances These are on reserve.
Recommended readings for Lecture 3
For the Plantation of Ulster
W.F.T. Butler, Confiscations in Irish history (London, 1970). Chapter 2
John McCavitt, ‘The political background to the Ulster plantation, 1607-1620’, in Brian MacCuarta (ed.), Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).
R,J, Hunter, ‘County Armagh: a map of plantation, c.1610’, in A.J. Hughes and William Nolan (eds.), Armagh history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 2001)
For Wentworth in Ireland
Aidan Clarke, The Old English in Ireland (London, 1966)
Aidan Clarke, The Graces (Dundalk, 1968)
Nicholas P Canny Making Ireland British Relevant chapters
Hugh Kearney Strafford in Ireland (Manchester, 1959 reprint, Oxford, 1992).
The Graces
T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, (eds), New History of Ireland iii: early modern Ireland (Oxford, 1976) relevant chapters.
Recommended readings for Lecture 4
R.C. Simington (ed.), Introduction to the Books of Survey and Distribution.
J.G. Simms, ‘The Civil Survey, 1654-6’, Irish Historical Studies, ix (1955)..
William Smyth, ‘Making the documents of conquest speak: the transformation of property, society, and settlement in seventeenth-century counties Tipperary and Kilkenny’, in Marilyn Silverman and P.H. Gullivar, Approaching the past: historical anthropology through Irish case studies (New York).
William Smyth, ‘Society and settlement in 17th century Ireland: the evidence of the "1659 Census"’, in William Smyth and Kevin Whelan (eds.), Common ground: essays on the historical geography of Ireland presented to T. Jones Hughes (Cork, 1988),
William J Smyth, ‘Territorial, social and settlement hierarchies in seventeenth century Kilkenny’, in William Nolan and Kevin Whelan (eds), Kilkenny history and society (Dublin, 1990).
Catherine Ketch, ‘landownership in county Waterford c. 1640: the evidence from the civil survey’, in William Nolan and Thomas P. Power (eds), Waterford history and society (Dublin, 1992).
Monica Brennan, ‘The changing composition of Kilkenny landowners, 1641-1700’, in William Nolan and Kevin Whelan (eds), Kilkenny history and society (Dublin 1990).
Daniel Gahan, ‘The estate system of County Wexford, 1641 -1876’, in Kevin Whelan and William Nolan (eds), Wexford history and society (Dublin 1987).
Nicholas P. Canny, ‘The 1641 depositions as a source for the writing of social history: County Cork as a case study’, in Patrick O’Flanagan and Cornelius G. Buttimer (eds.), Cork history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993).
S.R. Gardiner, ‘The transplantation to Connaught’, English Historical Review, xiv (1899).
Recommended readings for Lecture 5
Raymond Gillespie, Destabilizing Ulster, 1641-2’, in Brian MacCuarta (ed.), Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).
Nicholas P. Canny, ‘The 1641 depositions as a source for the writing of social history: County Cork as a case study’, in Patrick O’Flanagan and Cornelius G. Buttimer (eds.), Cork history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993), pp 249-308.
Michael Perceval-Maxwell, ‘Ulster 1641 in the context of the political developments in the three kingdoms’, in Brian MacCuarta (ed.), Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).
Recommended readings for Lecture 6
T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, (eds), New History of Ireland iii: early modern Ireland (Oxford, 1976) relevant chapters
Lenihan, Padraig, Confederate Catholics at war, 1642-1649 (Cork, 2001)
O’Siochru, Micheál, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649 (Dublin, 1999).
Cregan, Donal F, ‘The Confederate Catholics in Ireland: the personnel of the Confederation, 1642-9’, Irish Historical Studies, xxix (1995).
Lowe, John, ‘Charles I and the confederation of Kilkenny, 1643-9’, Irish Historical Studies, xiv (1964), pp 1-19.
Casway, Jerrold, Owen Roe O’Neill and the struggle for Catholic Ireland (USA, 1984).
Ohlmeyer, J.H., ‘The wars of religion, 1603-1660’, in Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (eds.), A military history of Ireland (Cambridge, 1997), pp 60-187.
Wheeler, James Scott, Cromwell in Ireland (Dublin, 1999).
Recommended readings for Lecture 7
McKenny, Kevin, ‘The seventeenth century land settlement in Ireland: towards a statistical interpretation’, in Jane Ohlmeyer (ed.), From independence to occupation: Ireland, 1641-1660 (Cambridge, 1995), pp 181-200.
Bottigheimer, Karl S., ‘The restoration land settlement in Ireland: a structural view’, Irish Historical Studies, xviii (1972), pp 1-21.
Butler, W.F.T., Confiscations in Irish history (London, 1970).
Barnard, T.C., ‘Planters and policies in Cromwellian Ireland’, Past & Present, 61 (1973), pp 31-69.
Arnold, L.J., ‘The Irish court of claims of 1663’, Irish Historical Studies, xxiv (1985), pp 417-30.
McKenny, Kevin, ‘Charles II’s Irish cavaliers: the 1649 officers and the Restoration land settlement’, Irish Historical Studies, xxviii (1993), pp 409-25.
Moody, T.W., et al A new history of Ireland, iii: Early modern Ireland, 1534-1691 (Oxford, 1976), chapters 14, 15, 17 and 18.
Other Books
Barnard, T.C., English government and reform in Ireland, 1649-1660 (Oxford, 2000 edt)
Prendergast, J.P., The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (Dublin, 3rd edition, 1922).
Bottigheimer, Karl S., English money and Irish land: the adventurers in the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (Oxford, 1971).
Clarke, Aidan, Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: the end of the Commonwealth, 1659-60 (Cambridge, 1999).
Recommended readings for Lecture 8
For The Glorious Revolution
Patrick Kelly, ‘Ireland and the Glorious Revolution: from kingdom to colony’, in Robert Beddard (ed.), The revolutions of 1688: the Andrew Browning lectures 1988 (Oxford, 1991).
D.W. Hayton, ‘The Williamite Revolution in Ireland, 1688-91’, in Jonathan I. Israel (ed.), The Anglo-Dutch moment: essays on the Glorious Revolution and its world impact (Cambridge)
Toby Barnard, ‘Scotland and Ireland in the later Stewart Monarchy’, in Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill, The British problem, c. 1534-1707: state formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
Jim Smyth, ‘The communities of Ireland and the British State, 1660-1707’, in Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill, The British problem, c. 1534-1707: state formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, (eds), New History of Ireland iii: early modem Ireland (Oxford, 1976) chapters 18 and 19
J.G. Simms, ‘The establishment of Protestant ascendancy, 1691-1714’ in T.W. Moody (ed) A new history of Ireland IV: eighteenth-century Ireland, 1691-1800 (Oxford, 1998).
For The Williamite Land Settlement
J.G. Simms, The Williamite confiscation in Ireland (London, 1956).
W.F.T. Butler, ‘Jacobites and Williamites’, in his Confiscations in Irish History (London).
Recommended readings for Lecture 9
Charles McGrath, ‘Securing the Protestant interest: the origins and purpose of the penal laws of 1695’ in Irish Historical Studies xxx (1997).
Maureen Wall, ‘The penal laws, 1691-1760’ in Gerard O’Brien and Tom Dunne (eds.), Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: collected essays of Maureen Wall
L.M. Cullen, ‘Catholics under the Penal Laws’, in Eighteenth Century Ireland, (1986).
W.N. Osborough, ‘Catholics, land and the Popery Acts of Anne’, in T.P. Power and Kevin Whelan (eds.), Endurance and Emergence: Catholics in Ireland in the eighteenth century (Dublin, 1990).
Thomas P. Power, ‘Converts’, in T.P. Power and Kevin Whelan (eds.), Endurance and Emergence: Catholics in Ireland in the eighteenth century (Dublin, 1990).
J.G. Simms, ‘The establishment of Protestant ascendancy, 1691-1714’, in T.W. Moody, W.E. Vaughan (eds), A new history of Ireland iv: eighteenth-century Ireland, 1691-1800 (Oxford, 1998).
Recommended readings for Lecture 10
Thomas Bartlett, ‘The origins and progress of the Catholic Question in Ireland, 1690-1800’, in T.P. Power and Kevin Whelan (eds), Endurance and Emergence: Catholics in Ireland in the eighteenth century (Dublin, 1990).
Joseph McMinn, ‘A weary patriot: Swift and the formation of an Anglo-Irish identity’, Eighteenth Century Ireland
Jacqueline Hill, ‘Historical reviews: convergence and conflict in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Historical Journal, 44, 4, (2001).
T.C. Barnard, ‘Historical Review: farewell to old Ireland’, Historical Journal, 36, 4, (1993).
Recommended readings for Lecture 11
James S. Donnelly, ‘The Whiteboy movement, 1761-5’, Irish Historical Studies, xvi (1978).
James Kelly, ‘The genesis of ‘Protestant Ascendancy’: the Rightboy disturbances of the 1780s and their impact upon Protestant opinion’, in Gerard O’Brien (ed.), Parliament, Politics and People: Essays in eighteenth-century Irish history (Dublin).
Eoin F. Magennis, ‘A Presbyterian insurrection? Reconsidering the Hearts of Oak disturbances of July 1763’, Irish Historical Studies, xxxi, no 122 (Nov 1998).
Nancy J. Curtain, ‘The transformation of the Society of the United Irishmen into a mass based revolutionary organisation, 1794-6’, Irish Historical Studies, xxiv, no 96 (Nov. 1995).
J.S. Donnelly, ‘Propagating the cause of the United Irishmen’, in Studies, lxix, (1980).
Thomas Bartlett, ‘Defence, counter insurgency and rebellion: Ireland, 1793-1803’, in Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffrey, A Military history of Ireland (Cambridge, 1997).
Harman Murtagh, ‘General Humbert’s futile campaign’, in Thomas Bartlett, D Dickson, K. Whelan (eds) 1798: A Bicentennial Perspective (2003).
Daniel Gahan, ‘The rebellion of 1798 in south Leinster’, in Thomas Bartlett, D Dickson, K. Whelan (eds) 1798: A Bicentennial Perspective (2003).
Ian MacBride, ‘Review article: reclaiming the rebellion: 1798 in 1998’, Irish Historical Studies, xxxi, no 123 (May 1999).