Stuart Ireland

 

frame for the 1600s: the century of the three kingdoms (Stevenson)

ch1

 

House of Stuart

1603 Union of the Crowns: James VI and I
Charles II
Stuart absolutism

Tudor-Stuart Ireland time line

 

I. Ireland before 1641

anglicization outside Ireland:
settlers, language, law, parliament, commercialization, urbanization

varieities of Irishness

native Irish/Gaelic Irish/Irish

Anglo-Normans/Anglo-Irish/Old English

New English

Ulster Scots

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1632-39)

"policy of thorough"

instability

 

II. The 1641 Irish Rebellion

1641

Dublin plot foiled
outbreak of rebellion in Ulster (Oct)
Sir Phelim O'Neill
c. 4000 Protestants killed
>Temple,The Irish Rebellion
rebellion spreads south; rebel siege of Drogheda (Nov)
alliance between rebels and Old English
1642
 meeting of Old English and rebels at  Kilkenny (June)
>Spenser and Confederation of Kilkenny
Scottish aid to Ulster (General Robert Munro)
Earl of Ormond
outbreak of war between Charles and Parliament (summer)
>Act for the Reduction of the Rebels
1643
 return of Owen Roe O'Neill (nephew of Hugh O'Neill)
1646
 re-publication of Sir John Temple's The Irish Rebellion
Legend of the Blood Massacre

massacre

Rev. Dr. Southwell, New Book of Martyrs, Representation of the principal
scenes in the Bloody Irish Massacre in 1642 wherein 40,000 Protestants were
inhumanly sacrificed by Papists