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Alternative Allegiances in Early Modern Irelandl *
Author(s) -
CLARKE AIDAN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00026.x
Subject(s) - allegiance , protestantism , conquest , colonialism , politics , argument (complex analysis) , character (mathematics) , history , patriotism , diversity (politics) , sociology , religious studies , ethnology , ancient history , law , political science , philosophy , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , mathematics
The nature of allegiance in early modern Ireland was complicated by conquest and religious difference and fragmented by the diversity of a colonial community which was made up of settlers from different periods and different places, professing different religions, and competing for influence. Notoriously, it was the more recent English protestant settlers who prevailed. The argument of this essay is that the evolving character of catholic allegiance was shaped by the growing need to contain English influence through the protection afforded by a common crown whose authority in Ireland was independent of its authority in England. The sense of being joined with England, but separate from its political processes, was transmitted to the protestant colonists and provided the ingredients of the colonial patriotism of the eighteenth‐century ascendancy.