The Uses of 23 October 1641 and Irish Protestant Celebrations

Barnard, Toby

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“…But the popularity of this commemoration, at least to judge by the publication of the sermons, was short-lived. 43 Ralph Lambert, a future bishop in Ireland, preached at St. James Piccadilly in 1708. 44 The next year, Samuel Palmer delivered the sermon at St. Clement Danes.…”

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The Irish in London and “The London Irish,” ca. 1660–1780

Barnard

2015

Eighteenth-Century Life

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The essay looks at individuals from Ireland who came to London between the 1660s and 1780s. Some belonged to groups that had particular reasons to be there, such as wealthy landowners with property in both England and Ireland, would-be lawyers and physicians, writers and artists, clergymen and active members of religious sects. Occasions when sizable numbers of the Irish met are discussed. Also, other factors that may have encouraged a sense of “Irishness,” such as residential districts favored by the Irish or continuing use of the Irish language, are considered. The occasional evidence of coordinated activity is set against the forces that encouraged assimilation into the local London and English cultures, thereby diluting “Irishness.”

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The Irish in London and “The London Irish,” ca. 1660–1780

Barnard

2015

Eighteenth-Century Life

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“…Sir John Temple's sensationalist cataloguing of Irish Catholic savagery – The History of the Rebellion (1646) – was not only reprinted over centuries, but sparked voluminous rejoinders seemingly with each generation. Even those Victorian colossi W. E. H. Lecky and J. A. Froude dwelt on violence as one of the distinguishing features of Irish history and, thus, as something to be explored and explained.…”

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Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the EarlyBritish Empire

Kane¹

2014

History

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Specialists on early modern violence and on human rights history have much to gain through collaboration, or at least mutual awareness. Human rights historians are increasingly drawing on studies of early modern violence. However, as contended here, early modernists tend to approach the subject framed by their own geographical areas of interest. As such, we lack an overarching sense of violence and its meanings across the Tudor and Stuart realms and colonies, something that would be of great utility in understanding how developments in the early modern period relate to later ones. In the interests of promoting such broader investigation and comparison, the present essay briefly surveys important aspects of the approach to violence in the English, Irish and Atlantic historiographies, and in the literatures of massacre and of human rights. In doing so, it sets the essays included in this special edition in their historiographical contexts and highlights crucial interventions. It concludes with thoughts not only on how a more comprehensive understanding of violence in the early British empire might be of value to human rights historians, but how the new meta‐narrative of human rights history might spur greater comparative work amongst early modernists.

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“…In the early eighteenth century, few doubted that backwardness, a cause of moral depravity as well as of material privation, still enveloped parts of Ireland. 79 Nevertheless, these savages might be regarded very differently from their sixteenth-century counterparts. Newer notions of civility and social worth, against which so many Catholics -and (more ominously) some Protestants -were measured and found wanting, complicated attitudes towards the poor and ignorant.…”

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Protestants and the Irish Language, c. 1675–1725

Barnard¹

1993

J. Eccles. Hist.

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Early modern Ireland defied its English and Protestant rulers and remained largely Catholic. Historians have explained this situation variously: in terms of Protestant feebleness, official indifference or Catholic vigour. Among Protestant failings, scant use of the Irish language has been listed. An attitude to the Irish tongue, at best ambiguous and at worst hostile, can be connected first with English concepts of civility and then with the severe Calvinist theology which pulsed through the Established Church of Ireland in the early seventeenth century, and which, by equating those already Protestant with the elect, justified devoting its sparse resources to them. In contrast, the Catholic Irish, because irredeemably reprobate, together with their language, could be ignored.

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The Uses of 23 October 1641 and Irish Protestant Celebrations

Cited by 65 publications

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The Irish in London and “The London Irish,” ca. 1660–1780

The Irish in London and “The London Irish,” ca. 1660–1780

Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the EarlyBritish Empire

Protestants and the Irish Language, c. 1675–1725

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