The Ulster earls and Baroque Europe

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Interest in the Irish in Europe in the early modern period has quickened in recent years, facilitated by better funding, increased research co-operation and enhanced digital resources. This volume presents the most recent research results in the field, beginning with a reassessment of the ‘Flight of the Earls’ in the context of European power politics. Essays follow Irish migrants through the labyrinth of confessional Europe, exploring their reception in the baroque imagination and their efforts to define themselves and their place in the new Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This collection, the 4th in the Irish in Europe Series and the fruit of the 2007 conference  hosted by the Irish College, Rome, looks at the factors pushing these migrants abroad and attracting them to Rome.

Contents: Richard Adams Marks (St Andrews), Scots in the Italian Peninsula during the Thirty Years War; Martin Stone (U Leuven), Irish Scotists in the 17th century; Laurence Brockliss (Magdalene, Oxford), Irish continental colleges; Ruairi O hÚiginn (NUIM), Irish literature in Flanders; Colm Lennon (NUIM), The flight of the earls in Spanish-British diplomacy; Gráinne McLaughlin (UU), Aristotle, Greco-Roman imagery, and the Irish in Europe; Steve Murdoch (St Andrews), Irish soldiers in 17th-century Scandinavia; Bruno Boute (Leuven), Peter Lombard: Leuven’s Roman agent; Joe Bergin (U Manchester), The Europe that the earls encountered; Ciaran Brady (TCD), Flight of the earls; Hiram Morgan (UCC), Explaining the flight of the earls; Jason Harris (UCC), Thomas Dempster and the theft of Irish saints; David Edwards (UCC), Garrisoning of Ulster after Kinsale; Carla Benocci (U Rome), Baroque Rome and Ulster earls.

Thomas O’Connor lectures in history and is dean of the faculty of arts in NUI Maynooth. Mary Ann Lyons is senior lecturer in history at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University.