I also include below some additional material from my own period (16th and=
=20
17th centuries) which may be of some use, but may in some cases be a bit=20
too detailed.
You are, incidentally right about the lack of good material on the social=
=20
history of Ireland.
T.C. Barnard, 'The political, material and mental culture of the Cork=20
settlers, 1650-1700', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G. Buttimer (ed.),=20
Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an=
=20
Irish county (Dublin, 1993) =20
N.P. Canny, 'The permissive frontier: social control in English=20
settlements in ireland and Virginia, 1550-1650', in K.R. Andrews, N.P.=20
Canny and P.E.H. Hare (ed.), The westward enterprise: English activities=20
in Ireland, the Atlantic and America 1450-1650 (Liverpool, 1978) =20
N.P. Canny, The upstart earl: a study of the social and mental world of=20
Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, 1566-1643 (Cambridge, 1982). =20
N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions as a source for the writing of social=20
history: County Cork as a case study', in Patrick O'Flanagan and C.G.=20
Buttimer (ed.), Cork: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on=20
the history of an Irish county (Dublin, 1993) =20
N.P. Canny, 'The 1641 depositions: a source for cultural and social=20
history' in History Ireland, i,4 (1993), pp 52-55.
Donal Cregan, 'The=B7social=B7and cultural background of a=20
counter-reformation=B7episcopate', in Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney=20
(ed.), Studies in Irish history presented to R.Dudley Edwards (Dublin,=20
1979) =20
L.M. Cullen, 'Population trends in seventeenth century Ireland' in=20
Economic and Social Review, vi (1975),
D.M. Dickson, Cormac O Grada and Stuart Daultrey, 'Hearth tax, household=20
size and Irish population change 1672-1821' in Proceedings of the Royal=20
Irish Academy, Sect. C, lxxxii (1982), pp 125-81.
P.J. Duffy, 'The evolution of estate properties in south Ulster=20
1600-1900', in W.J. Smith and Kevin Whelan (ed.), Common ground: essays=20
on the historical geography of Ireland (Cork, 1988) =20
Raymond Gillespie, 'Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland'=20
in Journal of Irish Economic and Social History, xi (1984), pp 5-18.
Raymond Gillespie, 'Funerals and society in early seventeenth century=20
Ireland' in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, cxv=20
(1985),=20
B.J. Graham and L.J. Proudfoot, An historical geography of Ireland=20
(London, 1993). =20
J.M. Graham, 'Rural society in Connacht, 1600-1640', in Nicholas Stephens=
=20
and R.E. Glasscock (ed.), Irish geographical studies in honour of E.Estyn=
=20
Evans (Belfast, 1970) =20
Anne Laurence, 'The cradle to the grave: English observations of Irish=20
social customs in the seventeenth century' in The Seventeenth Century,=20
iii,No 1 (1988), pp 63-84.
Norman Vance, Irish literature: a social history. Tradition, identity=20
and difference (Oxford, 1990). =20
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