These essays explore what it meant to be a Protestant living in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. These Protestants are shown responding to an environment, sometimes hostile, but also full of potential. Often, they behaved ruthlessly and quirkily, eager to secure prosperity and security for themselves and their kindred. However, more unexpected aspects of their lives, with their pleasures, are recovered. The studies, by looking closely at their experiences, question many of the clichs regarding the Irish ...
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These essays explore what it meant to be a Protestant living in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. These Protestants are shown responding to an environment, sometimes hostile, but also full of potential. Often, they behaved ruthlessly and quirkily, eager to secure prosperity and security for themselves and their kindred. However, more unexpected aspects of their lives, with their pleasures, are recovered. The studies, by looking closely at their experiences, question many of the clichs regarding the Irish Protestant ascendancy.
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Very Good in near fine jacket. First edition, 2004. Hardcover in dust jacket, 359 pp., Very Good copy in Near Fine dust jacket, pencil-notes to some pages, light soiling and edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
