Reading Ireland

Gillespie, Raymond

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“…At the beginning of the Stuart period, very few of the Gaelic Irish or the Scottish Highlanders would have understood English, although this changed over the course of the century as bilingualism became increasingly common. 39 In Wales some 90 percent of the population were Welsh-speaking monoglots in the early Stuart period. 40 What this means, however, is not necessarily that that there were populations that were indifferent to politics in more remote or news-starved areas.…”

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Publics and Participation in the Three Kingdoms: Was There Such a Thing as “British Public Opinion” in the Seventeenth Century?

Harris¹

2017

J. Br. Stud.

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This article explores where the people fit in to British history and whether there was such a thing as British public opinion in the seventeenth century. It argues that given the nature of the Stuart multiple monarchy, and the way the power structures of that monarchy impinged upon Ireland, Scotland, and England, the Stuarts' political authority was at times publicly negotiated on a Britannic level. People across Britain were engaged with British affairs: there was public opinion about British politics, in other words, albeit not British public opinion, since the people were bitterly divided at this time. However, because the crisis that brought down Charles I had been a three-kingdoms crisis, which in turn had helped spark the growth of a more sophisticated British news culture, the Restoration monarchy became increasingly sensitive to the need to try to keep public opinion across the Britannic archipelago on its side. In response to the challenge of the Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis, Charles II and his Tory allies sought to rally public support across England, Scotland, and Ireland and thus to represent “British public opinion” as being in favor of the hereditary succession. It was a representation, however, that remained contested.

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Publics and Participation in the Three Kingdoms: Was There Such a Thing as “British Public Opinion” in the Seventeenth Century?

Harris¹

2017

J. Br. Stud.

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“…40 As is well known, a significant factor influencing the logistics of communication in Ireland was the under-utilization of the printing press. 41 While newsbooks played a key role in disseminating news and shaping political participation in England, the earliest newspapers from Ireland, where a number of issues have survived, appeared only after 1660. 42 This is not to say, however, that no news publications were printed or circulated in Ireland before this time.…”

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Political Participation in Early Stuart Ireland

Darcy¹

2017

J. Br. Stud.

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A consideration of political participation in early Stuart Ireland suggests modifications to the prospectus outlined by Peter Lake and Steven Pincus in “Rethinking the Public Sphere in Early Modern England.” By investigating the structures that facilitated public debates about politics in Ireland, as well as the factors that complicated it, this article challenges the periodization of the public sphere offered by Lake and Pincus and suggests that there is a clear need to integrate a transnational perspective. Unlike England, Scotland, and Wales, the majority of Ireland's population was Catholic. The flow of post-Tridentine Catholic ideas from the Continent and Anglo-Britannic political culture meant that competing ideas of what constituted the common good circulated widely in Ireland and led to debates about the nature of authority in the early modern Irish state. These divisions in Irish society created a distinctive kind of politics that created particularly unstable publics. Thus, Ireland's experience of the early modern public sphere differed considerably from concurrent developments in the wider archipelago.

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“…7 Raymond Gillespie observed that, in the second-half of the seventeenth century at least, alongside a growth in luxury imports, silver and paintings became more common in large households. 8 Material culture historians of Ireland Susan Flavin and Toby Barnard have broken new ground and have drawn a more complex picture of early modern Ireland in which goods, mundane and magnificent, were threaded into the fabric of day-to-day life. 9 Flavin has used sixteenth-century port records to show that Irish consumers were actively consuming a range of perishable and material goods facilitated through merchant trade with British and continental ports.…”

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Fashion or Function? The Use of Silver in Seventeenth-Century Irish Society

Cunningham

2020

Irish Economic and Social History

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What was more important to consumers in seventeenth-century Ireland: the fashion or the function of their silver? This article disentangles the multiple and complex motivations informing the robust acquisition and consumption by individuals and institutions of a wide-ranging assortment of silverwares. Using the body of extant plate and a large array of documentary sources, this article poses and addresses several questions that have hitherto received little or no attention in the literature: How was silver used in seventeenth-century Ireland? Can we dismiss or prioritise the use value of items ostensibly acquired for symbolic, ceremonial or commemorative purposes? Did design and decoration matter? And, if so, how did this impact on value and utility? By answering these questions, this article evaluates plate as a material simultaneously facilitating functional purposes and expressing taste. This article uses these conclusions to generate a greater understanding of early modern Irish consumer society and the role of silver within this society.

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Reading Ireland

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Publics and Participation in the Three Kingdoms: Was There Such a Thing as “British Public Opinion” in the Seventeenth Century?

Publics and Participation in the Three Kingdoms: Was There Such a Thing as “British Public Opinion” in the Seventeenth Century?

Political Participation in Early Stuart Ireland

Fashion or Function? The Use of Silver in Seventeenth-Century Irish Society

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