‘Civilizinge of those Rude Partes’: Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580S-1640S

Ohlmeyer, Jane

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“…In the sixteenth century, the MacDonnells of Islay furthered tightened their grasp on the territories of north Ulster, alternatively fighting with and against both Irish and English forces. Culturally, the Gaelic society of the Isles and that of Ulster were intimately connected through a mutually intelligible Gaelic language, a history of political unity and fragmentation, and shared cultural practices (Ohlmeyer, 1998(Ohlmeyer, , 2006. One shared tradition was the wearing of mantles.…”

Section: The Trewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clothing and colonialism: The Dungiven costume and the fashioning of early modern identities

Horning

2014

Journal of Social Archaeology

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The entanglement of identity and personal attire in colonial settings is explored through consideration of a tattered set of clothes from late sixteenth-early seventeenth-century Ireland incorporating elements of Irish, English, and Scots fashion. Reconsideration of the clothing, recovered from a bog, provides a rare opportunity to explore the physical manifestations of processes of hybridity and mimesis, as well as the pragmatic accommodations of impoverishment and displacement in colonial settings. In addition to considering the role of material culture in colonial identity formation and negotiation, examination of what has become known as the Dungiven costume also speaks to the ongoing legacy of early modern colonial encounters, as the cultural associations of the garments, and by extension their past wearer(s), continue to be subjected to the politically charged nature of identity politics in contemporary Northern Ireland.

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Section: The Trewsmentioning

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Clothing and colonialism: The Dungiven costume and the fashioning of early modern identities

Horning

2014

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…The concepts used to legitimize the colonial enterprise in royal charters to colonizers first took shape in the papal bull encouraging Henry II to take possession of Ireland. Before 1641, observes Jane Ohlmeyer, 100,000 people had migrated to Ireland from Britain (30,000 Scots, the rest Welsh or English); the corresponding numbers of migrants crossing the Atlantic were: c.6,000 settlers in Massachusetts by 1636 and c.8,000 in Virginia by 1640 (Ohlmeyer, 1998: 139). Colonial adventurers like Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) and Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539–83) cut their teeth in Ireland, experimenting there with subduing an indigenous population with an alien culture and the mechanics of displacing the natives by establishing plantations of imported, already civilized and disciplined, settlers before they set sail for the more lucrative New World (Muldoon, 2003: 91–2).…”

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Three Faces of Civilization: ‘In the Beginning All the World was Ireland’

Krieken

2011

The Sociological Review

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This paper outlines a refi nement of the sociological usage of the concept 'civilization' by distinguishing between three different 'faces' of civilization -as the opposite of barbarism, as equivalent to culture, and in Elias's sense as capturing a particular trajectory of socio-historical development. I then illustrate how this distinction between three different faces of civilization can be deployed in relation to the history of the various attempts by the English to civilize the population of Ireland. Finally, I refl ect on the centrality of the experience of the colonization of Ireland for the English conception of how 'barbarism' should be understood and opposed to 'civilization' (which was then later mobilized in the colonization of the New World), as well as on the ways in which the colonization of Ireland constituted a binding together of both civilizing and decivilizing processes.

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“…The 'opening' of the frontier is often initially achieved through military conquest and the 'closing' of the frontier occurs when a single political authority emerges (Ohlmeyer, 1998), with the subjugation of the native people of the territory to colonial rule (Meinig, 1982). Colonial powers often establish a number of key settlements -both rural and urban -in closing the frontier.…”

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“…In particular, the establishment of towns as 'central instruments of imperial expansion and control' (Smyth, 2006:219) is considered essential in maintaining hegemony over the newly conquered territory and its inhabitants. Acting as centres of trade and administration, and as centres of security for colonial settlers, these urban settlements were seen as being key civilising components introduced by colonial powers in their plantation of new territories (Ohlmeyer, 1998). The impact of colonialism on any particular place may be assessed in five key ways: political, social, cultural, economic and psychological (Meinig, 1982:72-73).…”

Section: Colonial Urbanisationmentioning

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Colonial appropriation of gaelic urban space: Creating the first ulster plantation town

Cherry

2007

Irish Geography

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Using a diverse range of source material this paper highlights the colonial appropriation of the existing Gaelic market town of Cavan, founded by the O'Reillys, in the establishment of the first Ulster plantation town. In contrast to what may be expected, a reading of the socio-economic, political and cultural landscape of the newly incorporated town of Cavan in the early years of the 17th century, highlights the dominant position and important civic role played by families of Gaelic origins in the governance of the town. Unlike other plantation towns Cavan town remained 'unplanned' in its morphological layout with the colonisers utilising and modifying the existing Gaelic urban fabric. The decision by English colonial powers to use the pre-existing urban settlement of Cavan town led to success for the colonial project on paper. Unlike other Ulster plantation towns, it also uniquely permitted the retention of a strong and distinct Gaelic presence and character which manifested itself in both the population and space of the town during the early decades of the 17th century.

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‘Civilizinge of those Rude Partes’: Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580S-1640S

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Clothing and colonialism: The Dungiven costume and the fashioning of early modern identities

Clothing and colonialism: The Dungiven costume and the fashioning of early modern identities

Three Faces of Civilization: ‘In the Beginning All the World was Ireland’

Colonial appropriation of gaelic urban space: Creating the first ulster plantation town

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