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| Titre : | The Transplanters' certificates and the historiography of Cromwellian Ireland (2011) |
| Auteurs : | John CUNNINGHAM, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 37 n 147 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 376-395 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland involved a substantial transfer of property from Catholics to Protestants, and the transplantation of dispossessed Catholic landowners to the western province of Connacht. The latter scheme proved controversial, receiving considerable attention from contemporary Protestant authors, and outright condemnation from all Catholics. Nonetheless, it was little commented upon by historians over the following two centuries. Debate on the mid-seventeenth century focused, instead, on the 1641 rebellion and the ensuing war, as successive Catholic and Protestant apologists advanced conflicting claims and counter-claims concerning the atrocities allegedly committed on both sides. It was only in the second half of the nineteenth century that the historiography of the period came to be reconfigured - enabled, perhaps, by the rediscovery of long-forgotten sources and the establishment of the Public Record Office of Ireland. The emergence of these sources coincided with, and contributed to, debates concerning growing agrarian tensions and hostility towards landlordism, a system widely perceived to be Cromwellian in origin. In this highly charged environment the transplantation now came to be viewed as a significant milestone in Irish history |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | John Cunningham |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
