Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland Kingdom or Colony

This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Within it, distinguished international scholars investigate on the leading political theorists of the day and draw attention to previously neglected writers, Irish Catholics in particular, and overlooked political treatises. Major topics are addressed; the constitutional relationship between England and Ireland and the extent to which Ireland was a kingdom or colony; Ireland's intellectual links with Catholic Europe and the influence of counter-reformation ideology; the place of Irish political thought in its wider 'three kingdoms', imperial and Atlantic contexts. The dramatic impact on political thought of the civil wars of the 1640s and 1688–91 is also examined. The volume as a whole provides an interesting perspective on the formation of early modern Irish identity.

1. Introduction Jane H. Ohlmeyer; Part I. Ireland and England: 2. Patrick Darcy and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain Aidan Clarke; 3. Counter-currents in colonial discourse: The political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin Patricia Coughlan; 4. Recasting a tradition: William Molyneux and the sources of The Case of Ireland Stated (1698) Patrick Kelly; 5. Political ideas and their social contexts in seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; Part II. Ireland and the Continent: 6. Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch's Cambrensis Eversus (1662) Bernadette Cunningham; 7. 'Though hereticks and politicians should misinterpret their good zeale': Political ideology and Catholicism in early modern Ireland Tadhg ó hAnnracháin; 8. Gaelic Maccabeanism: the politics of reconciliation Jerrold Casway; Part III. Irish Political Thought and the New British and Irish Histories: 9. Covenanting ideology in seventeenth-century Scotland Allan Macinnes; 10. The political economy of Britian and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution David Armitage; 11. From ancient constitution to British empire: William Atwood and the imperial crown of England Charles C. Ludington; 12. The third kingdom in its history: an afterword J. G. A. Pocock.

This 2000 volume offered the first in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished scholars investigate on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers and treatises, providing an interesting perspective on the formation of early modern Irish identity.