Plantation Ireland
Subtitle: settlement and material culture, c.1550-c.1700
By: edited by James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne
Contributors: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement; Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group
Publisher: Four Courts Press for the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement & Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group; Four Courts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781846821868
Description: "The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the Plantation of Ulster. This timely book explores the concept of plantation as a model for explaining change in cultural and social behaviour in early modern Ireland. Focusing on the implications that the various plantation schemes had for economic development, architecture, landscape and ideology, essays touch upon issues including the representation of plantation in contemporary literature, the impact of new technologies, and the material manifestations of religious beliefs. Additional essays place Ightermurragh Castle, Co. Cork, in context; provide insight into famine and displacement in plantation-period Munster; examine the popularity of fortified houses during this time, as well as the cultural role of the alehouse; and finally closes with a look at the last stages of plantation in Ireland."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new approaches to plantation-period Ireland /James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne; title: "Certayn notes" : Biblical and foreign signposts to the Ulster Plantation / Rolf Loeber; title: The problems of plantations : material culture and social change in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie; title: How popular were fortified houses in Irish castle building history? : a look at their numbers in the archaeological record and distribution patterns / Sharon Weadick; title: A house at the birth of modernity : Ightermurragh Castle in context / Tadgh O'Keeffe and Sinéad Quirke; title: "The root of all vice and bestiality" :exploring the cultural role of the alehouse in the Ulster Plantation / Audrey Horning; title: Famine and displacement in plantation-period Munster / Colin Breen; title: Representing plantation landscapes : the mapping of Ulster, c.1560-1640 / Annaleigh Margey; title: Archaeological perspectives on external mortuary monuments of plantation Ireland / Harold Mytum; title: Faith of our fathers : the Gaelic aristocracy in Co. Offaly and the Counter-Reformation / James Lyttleton; title: Relics and the past : the material culture of Catholic martyrdom in Ireland / Clodagh Tait; title: Irish archaeology and the poetry of Edmund Spenser : content and context / Thomas Herron; title: The social archaeology of plantation-period ironworks in Ireland ; immigrant industrial communities and technology transfer, c.1560-1640 / Colin Rynne; title: Last stages of plantation / Toby Barnard.