Annaleigh Margey - The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion

THE 1641 DEPOSITIONS AND THE IRISH REBELLION

Series Editors: Paul E.J. Hammer
Louis Sicking
Frank Tallett
David J. B. Trim

1 Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
Graham Dunlop

2 Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944
Simon Anglim

3 The Jacobite Campaigns: The British State at War
Jonathan D, Oates

4 Arming the Royal Navy, 1793-1815: The Office of Ordnance and the State
Gareth Cole

5 Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603-1642
Jason White

Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837-1902
Ian Beckett ( ed. )

Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Kaushik Roy

German Soldiers in Colonial India
Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi

Edited by
Eamon Darcy, Annaleigh Margey and Elaine Murphy

First published 2012

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The 1641 depositions and the Irish Rebellion. (Warfare, society and culture)
1. Ireland History Rebellion of 1641 Sources. 2. Ireland History Rebel
lion of 1641 Causes Sources.
I. Series II. Darcy, Eamon. III. Margey, Annaleigh. IV. Murphy, Elaine, 1975
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This collection had its origins in a conference on The 1641 Depositions; Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms' held at Trinity College Dublin in April 2010. The conference sparked much debate on new approaches to the study of the 1641 Depositions, some of which are presented here. First, and foremost, we would like to thank both those who gave papers at the conference, and those who subsequently contributed to this volume.

This book owes a great debt to the 1641 Depositions Project. We would like to thank the principal investigators of the project, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor Tom Bartlett, Professor John Morrill and Dr Michel Siochr for their support in both organizing the conference and preparing this book. We would most especially like to thank our colleague Dr Edda Frankot, one of the original organizers of the conference, who gave her time, advice and general good humour to the preparation of this book. We would also like to express our gratitude to our colleagues in the departments of history at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen, especially the postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows, with whom we worked closely over recent years. Further thanks are due to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK which funded the 1641 Depositions Project, and subsequently the initial conference underpinning this book.

Given both the library-based, and digital humanities, nature of the 1641 Depositions Project, we have had the good fortune to work with a wide range of scholars across Trinity College Dublin. The staff of the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library have been particularly supportive of our work, and the 1641 Depositions Project in general. We would like to offer our thanks to Dr Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts, and the staff of the department for their assistance throughout the project and in the preparation of this book. No research in history at Trinity College Dublin could take place without the help of Ms Mary Higgins, research librarian for history in the library of Trinity College Dublin, to whom we are indebted. We would also like to thank our colleagues, Dr Seamus Lawless and Dr Deirdre O'Reagan, in the department of computer sciences for their patience, time and generosity throughout the project. Thanks are also due to Mr. Brian Donovan and the staff of Eneclann, who digitized the depositions and designed the project website.

This book is part of Pickering & Chatto's 'Warfare, Society and Culture' series. We have worked closely with the series editors, David J. B. Trim, Paul E. J. Hammer, Louis Sicking and Frank Tallet in preparing this volume. They have been extremely supportive of this work from the early days of the conference, and have guided us through this process with wonderful advice and encouragement. We would also like to thank the team at Pickering & Chatto, most especially Ruth Ireland and Daire Carr with whom we have worked closely.

Our final thanks go to our families and friends, who have listened to our conversations about this book with interest. We dedicate the book to Professor Aidan Clarke, the general editor of the 1641 Depositions Project, from whom we have all learned so much about the 1641 Depositions, and who has encouraged us in our research through numerous conversations and many cups of tea in the project office.

Charlene Adair is currently a history teacher at Belfast Royal Academy. She completed her PhD entitled 'War and Revolution: County Fermanagh and its Borders, c. 1640-1666' in 2008. Dr Adair undertook the pilot work for the 1641 Depositions Project and has published an article based on this research with Michel Siochr entitled 'County Fermanagh and the 1641 Depositions', Archivium Hibernicum, 61 (2008), pp. 62-136.

John Cunningham is Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Mobility fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Freiburg. He has published a monograph, Conquest and Land in Ireland: the Transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1660 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2011), as well as several articles and essays on early modern history.

Eamon Darcy is an assistant professor in the department of history in Trinity College Dublin. In 2009 he completed his Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) funded PhD on the topic of 'Pogroms, Politics and Print: the 1641 Rebellion in Contemporary Print Culture'. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library, California and the Folger Library, Washington. He is currently revising his thesis for publication.