| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Sailus, Christopher
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| URN |
etd-04242012-124150 |
| Title |
Rebels, Settlers and Violence: Rebellion in Western Munster, 1641-2 |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
History |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Stater, Victor |
Committee Chair |
| Kooi, Christine |
Committee Member |
| Marchand, Suzanne |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Cork
- civil war
- depositions
- sieges
- Ballyally
- robberies
- stripping
- English
- MacCarthy
- Ballycarty
- Tralee
- Muskerry
- Barry
- Inchiquin
- Sugan
- O'Brien
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| Date of Defense |
2012-04-23 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This study challenges current historical assumptions about the nature, scope, and timeframe of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in Kerry, Clare, and Limerick counties in western Munster. Placing the start of the popular rebellion in these counties around 1 January 1642, the beginning of unrest is set several months further back. In the process of analyzing the actions of popular and organized rebels alike, the motivations for rebellion are characterized as political and social rather than religious. In turn, seventeenth-century Irish society was transformed from the traditional narrative of a rigid, religiously-divided society into something far more complex and amorphous, with emphasis placed on the importance of local situations, in particular the successes or failures of plantation policy and the existence of substantial Protestant populations. Though the rebellion would later coalesce along confessional lines after the October 1642 Confederation of Kilkenny, the initial period of rebellion demonstrates that certain areas of Ireland by 1641 had produced religiously heterogeneous societies that served to slightly soften attitudes between rebels and their Protestant neighbors.
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