Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment

<p>Large 8vo. 468 pp, list of 33 b&amp;w illustrations, Bulochas; list of abbreviations, genealogical table of the house of Stuart, maps, preface, introduction, 1. 'Caithreim Sheamais; agus 'Seamas an Chaca': Irish Jacobitism, 1684-90; 2. 'An Longbhriseadh': The Shipwreck, 1692-1702; 3. 'Seamas an Tagarach' agus 'na leoin tar tuinn': Irish Jacobitism, 1702-16; 4. 'Seamas Mac Sheamais is an Diuc thar lear': Irish Jacobitism after the 'Fifteen'; 5. 'Agus briseadh go deo at Sheamas'? : Jacobitism in the Doldrums, 1725-39; 6. 'Searlas in Alba ag gearradh no meirleach': Ireland and the 'Forty-Five'; 7. 'S gan oidhre Ri Seamas i mBreatain 'na dheidh': The Jacobite Twilight, 1752-66; conclusion, bibliography, chronology, index of first lines, index. First Edition, 2002. Inscribed by the Author on Title Page. Black cloth gilt lettering to spine. "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 European contexts and the inclusion of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'. European high politics and recruitment for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish writers, at home and abroad."</p>

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O Ciardha, Eamonn

Europe

Four Courts Pr Ltd

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 European contexts and the inclusion of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'. Both Jacobites and anti-Jacobites were obsessed with the vicissitudes of eighteenth-century European politics, and the fluctuating fortunes of the Stuarts in international diplomacy. European high politics and recruitment for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish writers, at home and abroad. The period between the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession (1739-49) and the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) witnessed a reinvigoration of Irish Jacobitism which permeated all levels of Irish society, at home and abroad. However, Britain's triumph in 1763 laid the basis for a new geopolitics, which hastened the demise of Jacobitism as a potent force in European high politics. It also permitted the emergence of a segment of Irish Catholic opinion willing to make a strategic accommodation with the House of Hanover.

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Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment

Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment