Ulster earls in baroque Europe Launch
The fourth volume in the Irish in Europe proceedings’ series has appeared. The Ulster earls in baroque Europe: refashioning Irish identities 1600-1800 (Dublin, 2010) is edited by Thomas O’Connor and Mary Ann Lyons.
Interest in the Irish in Europe in the early modern period has quickened in recent years. This development has been facilitated by improved funding, increased research co-operation and enhanced digital resources. This volume presents the most recent research results in the field, beginning with a reassessment of the ‘Flight of the Earls’ (1607) in the context of European power politics.
Essays follows Irish migrant through the labyrinth of confessional Europe, exploring their reception in the counter-reformation imagination and their efforts to define themselves and their place in the new Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contributors include Laurence Brockliss (Oxford), Joseph Bergin (Manchester), Bruno Boute (Leuven), Ann Castro Santamaría (Salamanca) and Peter Stoll (Augsburg).
