Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766
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This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in 1766. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jacobite poetry in its wider 'British' and…
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In this book Ó Ciardha deals with the red-haired stepchild of the Jacobite movement.
Despite the fact that support for the exiled Stuarts was strongest in Ireland and that the tens of thousands of Catholic Irish soldiers in European armies were a major military and diplomatic resource for the Stuart monarchs, Ireland got short shrift in all Jacobite policymaking.
This is because Protestant religious prejudice meant Catholicism, and Catholic Irish soldiers in particular, were politically toxic in England and Scotland. To control the British Isles the Stuarts needed to control England and Scotland and so the Irish Jacobites were always…
From Daniel's list on the Jacobite Risings.
If Scotland supplied the largest number of Jacobite forces in the Risings at home, Ireland had the largest number of Jacobites in the service of foreign armies, as Catholics had no possibility of an army career in Britain at this time.
Ó Ciardha’s book is the best single-volume study of the trajectory of Irish Jacobitism – its politics, its plots, and its culture, over the many decades when it was a serious political option.
From Murray's list on how Jacobitism had a different vision for Britain.
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