Date of Award
Spring 2000
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History Department
First Advisor
Robert S. DuPlessis
Abstract
In an attempt to counter nationalist historians who present seventeenth and eighteenth century Irish history as a conflict between a united “Irish” nation and the English’s conquest and colonization of Ireland, Roney focuses on the development of Anglo-Irish identity in this period. Using pamphlets published between 1641 and 1800, she looks at this identity formation in relation to the rest of the population of Ireland and to England, and on Catholic responses to this identity. Through this examination of well-developed elite discourse, Roney finds that clashes between religious and ancestral groups in Ireland contributed to internal Irish tensions as well as to conflicts between England and Ireland.
Recommended Citation
Roney, Jessica E. , '00, "Defining 'Irish': Shifting Images of National Identity in Ireland, 1641-1800" (2000). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 567.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/567