Making Ireland English : the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century / Jane Ohlmeyer.
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Definitions
- Making Ireland English
- Structure
- The archives
- Historiography
- Part I: The reconstitution of Ireland's aristocracy, 1590s-1670s
- Chapter 2: The transforamtion of the peerage
- Peerage in 1603
- Inflation of honours
- Resident peerage in 1628
- Resident peerage in 1641
- Mid-century elevations
- Mid-century creations
- Resident Peerage in 1670 and 1685
- Securing the succession
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: The transformation of noble culture
- Nobles in Irish society
- Honour
- Contesting and defending honour
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Landed nobility
- Titled landholders in 1641 and c. 1670
- Titled landholding in Country Dublin
- Tenure
- Plantations
- The Munster plantation
- The first Earl of Cork
- The Roches and MacCarthys
- The Butlers
- The Ulster plantation
- The Earls of Antrim
- The informal plantations
- The formal plantations
- Other early Stuart
- Settlements
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Religion
- Catholicism and kingship
- the Catholic Church
- Lay patronage of the Catholic Church
- Clerical connections
- Presbyterianism and the peers
- The Church of Ireland and the peers
- Personal piety
- Wardships and conversions
- Sincerity of conversions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Marriage
- Women in Stuart society
- Courtship
- Frequency of marriage
- Age at marriage
- Geographic origin of brides
- Mixed marriages
- Social status of brides
- The economic importance of marriage
- Relationships
- Conclusion
- Part II: The peerage in politics
- Chapter 7: Power, politics and public office
- The Stuart court
- The exercise of national and local power
- Law and order
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Early Stuart parliaments
- The 1613-15 Parliament
- The Graces
- The 1634-5 Parliament
- The 1640-1 Parliament
- The opposition peers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Civil war
- A military caste
- War in Scotland and rebellion in Ireland
- The impact of the 1641 rebellion
- The Baronial context of the civil wars
- War and politics
- Confederate Catholics
- Baronial leadership
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: Survival
- Exile
- Reprisals
- Catholic survival
- Transplantation
- The case of Antrim
- Protestant survivors
- Architects of restoration
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: The restoration land settlement
- A revolution in titled landholding?
- The winners
- The survivors
- The losers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Political life
- The Irish Parliament, 1661-6
- The politics behind the land settlement
- Restoration Dublin
- Later Stuart politics
- The army
- James II
- Conclusion.
- Part III: The sinews of power
- Chapter 13: Income
- Levels of wealth
- Landed entrepreneurs and improving landlords
- Urbanization and commercialization
- Overseas expansionism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 15: Lineage and formation
- Kinship and Clientage networks
- Children
- Schooling and Education
- Grand tours and the exercise of arms
- Conclusion
- Chapter 16: Death and memory
- Preparing for death
- Cause of death
- Funerals
- Memorialization and posterity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 17: Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix I: Lands held by resident titled nobles in 1641, ranked according to size
- Appendix II: Office holding and political activity of resident peers, c. 1600-c.1690
- Appendix III: Military and political activity of resident peers during the 1640s.
- Appendix IV: Peers recorded in the 1660 poll tax (the so-called '1659 census')
- Appendix V: Attendance and activity in the House of Lords, 1661-6
- Appendix VI: The land settlement and the process of restoration.