Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe

536 Pages·2006·33.302 MB·English

by  Thomas O'Connor, Mary Ann Lyons

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IRISH COMMUNITIES IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE
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Thomas O’Connor (ed.), The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815
Thomas O’Connor & Mary Ann Lyons (eds), rish migrants in Europe after
Kinsale, 1602-1820
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Irish Communities in
Early-Modern Europe
Thomas O’Connor & Mary Ann Lyons
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Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Vil
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTION
I Apotheosis and crisis: the Irish diaspora in the age of Choiseul
L.M. Cullen
The Counter-Reformation and Franco-Irish solidarity: Irish clerical
refugees at the universities of Toulouse and Cahors in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
32
Patrick Ferté
Etudiants et professeurs irlandais dans les universités de Toulouse
et de Cahors (X VIe -XVIlle siécles): les limites de la mission
irlandaise 69
Patrick Ferté
The Irish in France 1660-90: the point of no return 85
Eamon O Ciosain
Rivalry and reform in the Irish College, Paris, 1676-1775 103
Liam Chambers
L’insertion des réfugiés jacobites dans la société francaise du
dix-huitiéme siécle 130
Patrick Clarke de Dromantin
Andrew MacDonagh: the Irish Monte-Cristo 145
Pierre FJoannon
Last flight of the Wild Geese? Bonaparte’s Irish Legion, 1803-15 160
Thomas Bartlett
Irish migration and exiles in Spain: refugees, soldiers, traders
and statesmen 172
Maria Begona Villar Garcia
The réle of Castilian royal bureaucracy in the formation of
IO
early-modern Irish literacy
200
Ciaran O’Scea
Vi Contents
Irish émigré group strategies of survival, adaptation and integration
Il
in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spain 240
Oscar Recio Morales
Irish clerics in Madrid, 1598-1665 267
12
Enrique Garcia Hernan
Irish political activity in Spain during the Restoration 294
13
Igor Pérez Tostado
14 Varieties of Irishness in eighteenth-century Seville: Wisemans
and Whites 312
Martin Murphy
15 The Victorians, the Americans and the decline of Spain 322
Ciaran Brady
16 Irish entrepreneurs and Sweden in the first half of the eighteenth
century 348
Steve Murdoch
The Ray dynasty: Irish mercantile empire builders in Ostend,
17
1690-1790 367
Jan Parmentier
18 Irish translation in continental Europe, 1630-60 383
Charles Dillon
19 Irish diplomatic missions to Rome during the 1640s 395
Tadhg O hAnnrachain
20 Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738) and the French embassy to Saxony,
1711-12 409
Thomas Byrne
Irish involvement in the ‘surprise of Cremona’, 1702 429
21
Eoghan O hAnnrachain
22 Seventeenth-century Ireland and Scotland and their wider worlds 457
Jane Ohlmeyer
INDEX 485