Ambiguous Allegiances: Early Modern Ireland

Bradshaw, Brendan; Carey, Vincent P.; Lötz-Heumann, Ute; Barnard, Toby

doi:10.2307/29736275

The Irish Review (1986-)

2005

DOI: 10.2307/29736275

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Ambiguous Allegiances: Early Modern Ireland

Brendan Bradshaw¹,

Vincent P. Carey²,

Ute Lötz-Heumann³

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“…The splendid Georgian buildings of Dublin, the second city of the eighteenth-century British Empire, are a testament to an 'oppressed Catholic underclass' as much as to the 'status-obsessed plutocracy whose vanity and conspicuous consumerism they were built to satisfy'. 25 There is another side to the relative peace and prosperity of eighteenth-century Ireland.…”

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Early Modern Ireland: A British Atlantic Colony?

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2008

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The question of whether Ireland should be viewed as a colony within the British Empire has been debated within Irish historiography in recent decades. The term has proven contentious, and alternatives have been suggested. However, there is considerable merit in viewing Ireland in the early modern period as a colony. The period witnessed major British plantation projects, but also increasing levels of violence, expropriation, and cultural and sectarian conflict. The consequences and contested legacies of these events would influence Ireland's historical development as it became integrated into an emerging British Atlantic world, and eventually the British Empire.

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“…However, this effort at letting the evidence speak for itself clearly does not satisfy those who, while not actually expecting historians to doctor evidence in order to create heroes, certainly deny them any right to question the integrity of characters from the past who have been made heroes of one Irish community by popular proclamation. 21…”

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Historians, moral judgement and national communities: the Irish dilemma

Canny¹

2006

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This paper treats of the peculiarity of the Irish case. Professionalization of history came late to Ireland, and when it did happen, it was with a view to overcoming the inter-denominational and inter-communal point scoring that had energized most previous writing of Ireland's history. In tracing the further development of the history profession in Ireland, the paper alludes to the extent to which the posing of new questions and the employment of new methods were motivated by historical developments elsewhere in the western academic world. The outbreak of civil conflict in Northern Ireland inspired a new phase of introspective writing about Irish identity, sometimes given the semblance of universality through the invocation of post-colonial theory. This writing was usually presented in historical format, was composed mostly by academics employed by literature and social science departments, and was severely critical of what they described as the historical revisionism in which most professional historians in Ireland were believed to have engaged. It concludes with a consideration of how historians responded both to the challenge to their integrity and to various pressures to become more judgemental in writing about Ireland's past.

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