The Scots in Early Stuart Ireland: Union and Separation in Two Kingdoms(Studies in Early Modern Irish History)

Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603–60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England’s Anglicising influence in the northern and western ‘British Isles’ and the often slight basis on which the Stuart pursuit of a new ‘British’ consciousness operated. Regarding the Anglo-Scottish relationship, it was chiefly in Ireland that the English and Scots intermingled after 1603, with a variety of consequences, often destabilising. The importance of the Gaelic sphere in Irish-Scottish connections also receives much greater attention here than in previous accounts. This Gaedhealtacht played a central role in the transmission of religious radicalism, both Catholic and Protestant, in Ireland and Scotland, ultimately leading to political crisis and revolution within the British Isles.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Union and separation – David Edwards 1 Scottish officials and secular government in Early Stuart Ireland – David Edwards 2 ‘Scottish peers’ in seventeenth-century Ireland – Jane Ohlmeyer 3 Scottish settlement and society in Plantation Ulster, 1610–40 – William Roulston 4 Scottish Protestant clergy and the origins of dissent in Ireland – Alan Ford 5 Scots Catholics in Ulster, 1610–41 – Brian Mac Cuarta 6 Confessionalisation and clan cohesion: Ireland’s contribution to Scottish Catholic renewal in the seventeenth century – R. Scott Spurlock 7 The Irish Franciscan mission to the Highlands and Islands – Jason Harris 8 The Scottish response to the 1641 rebellion in Connacht: The case of Sir Frederick Hamilton – Aoife Duignan 9 The Scots of Ireland and the English Republic – Robert Armstrong Index

About the Author :
David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork Simon Egan is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow

Review :
‘Edwards has drawn together an unusually cohesive set of articles grouped around an orderly sequence of themes that include land, office, religious identity, and politics.’ Pádraig Lenihan, National University of Ireland, Galway, Renaissance Quarterly, 70.3 (Fall 2017)