HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: 1640 Irish Rebellion

Introduction: Ireland's Political Components, 1603-41 -- Ireland before the Rebellion -- Prelude to Parliaments -- The Irish Parliament in 1640 -- The British Dimension: Politics and Religion, 1640-41 -- The Structure of Irish Politics in 1641 -- The Fifth Session and the Policy of Plantation -- The Constitution -- Charles and the New Irish Army -- Plotting the Rebellion -- The Outbreak of the Rebellion -- Reaction to the Rising in Ireland -- The Reaction in Britain to the Rebellion.

The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Indeed, the 1641 'massacres', like the battles at the Boyne (1690) and Somme (1916), played a key role in creating and sustaining a collective Protestant/ British identity in Ulster, in much the same way that the subsequent Cromwellian conquest in the 1650s helped forge a new Irish Catholic national identity. Following a successful hardback edition, Ó Siochrú and OIhlmeyer's popular title is now available in paperback. The original and wide-ranging themes chosen by leading international scholars for this volume will ensure that this edited collection becomes required reading for all those interested in the history of early modern Europe. It will also appeal to those engaged in early colonial studies in the Atlantic world and beyond, as the volume adopts a genuinely comparative approach throughout, examining developments in a broad global context.