Irish townspeople
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Irish townspeople
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See moreA work of Irish urban history that studies the society and culture of townspeople, including their integration as citizens, their membership of fraternities, guilds and parishes and their charity. As civic leaders they forged political and confessional identities that set them at odds with church and state in mid-seventeenth century Ireland.
Through a series of innovative perspectives, this book examines how early modern Irish townspeople experienced the urban world through a range of family and associational ties.
Irish Townspeople explores how migrants, inducted through town citizenship and marriage, bonded more closely as sisters or brothers of confraternities and guilds, consolidating parish membership. Civic religion integrated with town politics and councils, while monastic charity of the friars' hospitals preceded the era of modern municipal welfare.
In circumstances of the alienation of the long-settled Catholic townspeople from the stateโs religious and political Reformation in the seventeenth century, they drew sustenance from the continuity of institutions such as colleges, fraternities, and hospitals, as well as forms of coexistence with Protestant fellow-citizens.
Series: Studies in Early Modern Irish History
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526193421
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 615g
Pages: 312
About the Author
Colm Lennon is Emeritus Professor of History at Maynooth University.
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