Early Modern Irish Social History

Subject: Re: Cromwellian Ireland
From: Chris Ivic <civic@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca>

Can your student get her hands on _Sources for Early Modern Irish History, 1534-1641_ (Cambridge, 1985)? There's a useful chapter entitled "Archival collections," which would tell her what's where.

From: RSMILLARD@aol.com
Subject: Re: Cromwellian Ireland

Luc Borot's student interested in Cromwellian Ireland might well start with T. C. Barnard's appropriately titled "Cromwellian Ireland" (Oxford University Press, 1975), which contains a brief guide to manuscripts.

Richard S. Millard

From: G A Ford <G.A.Ford@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Book Suggestions: Irish social history

Obvious place to start is with the relevant volumes of the Oxford New History of Ireland, which have excellent bibliographies, usefully arranged under subject headings. Another more recent survey of historical geography which will contain more up to date references is Graham and Proudfoot, listed below.

I also include below some additional material from my own period (16th and 17th centuries) which may be of some use, but may in some cases be a bit too detailed.
You are, incidentally right about the lack of good material on the social history of Ireland.

T.C. Barnard, 'The political, material and mental culture of the Cork settlers, 1650-1700', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G. Buttimer (ed.), Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993)
N.P. Canny, 'The permissive frontier: social control in English settlements in ireland and Virginia, 1550-1650', in K.R. Andrews, N.P. Canny and P.E.H. Hare (ed.), The westward enterprise: English activities in Ireland, the Atlantic and America 1450-1650 (Liverpool, 1978) N.P. Canny, The upstart earl: a study of the social and mental world of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, 1566-1643 (Cambridge, 1982). N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions as a source for the writing of social history: County Cork as a case study', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G. Buttimer (ed.), Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993) N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions: a source for cultural and social history' in History Ireland, i,4 (1993), pp 52-55. Donal Cregan, 'The'social'and cultural background of a counter-reformation episcopate', in Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney (ed.), Studies in Irish history presented to R.Dudley Edwards (Dublin, 1979)
L.M. Cullen, 'Population trends in seventeenth century Ireland' in Economic and Social Review, vi (1975),
D.M. Dickson, Cormac O Grada and Stuart Daultrey, 'Hearth tax, household size and Irish population change 1672-1821' in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Sect. C, lxxxii (1982), pp 125-81. P.J. Duffy, 'The evolution of estate properties in south Ulster 1600-1900', in W.J. Smith and Kevin Whelan (ed.), Common ground: essays on the historical geography of Ireland (Cork, 1988) Raymond Gillespie, 'Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland' in Journal of Irish Economic and Social History, xi (1984), pp 5-18. Raymond Gillespie, 'Funerals and society in early seventeenth century Ireland' in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, cxv (1985),
B.J. Graham and L.J. Proudfoot, An historical geography of Ireland (London, 1993).
J.M. Graham, 'Rural society in Connacht, 1600-1640', in Nicholas Stephens and R.E. Glasscock (ed.), Irish geographical studies in honour of E.Estyn Evans (Belfast, 1970)
Anne Laurence, 'The cradle to the grave: English observations of Irish social customs in the seventeenth century' in The Seventeenth Century, iii,No 1 (1988), pp 63-84.
Norman Vance, Irish literature: a social history. Tradition, identity and difference (Oxford, 1990).
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