Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Aidan Clarke: an appreciation
- Conventions
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Making good: New perspectives on the English in early modern Ireland
- 2 The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland
- 3 Dynamics of regional development: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of south-east Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland
- 4 The ‘common good’ and the university in an age of confessional conflict
- 5 The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599–1614
- 6 The Bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised
- 7 ‘That Bugbear Arminianism’: Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin
- 8 The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640–1641
- 9 The Irish elections of 1640–1641
- 10 Catholic Confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641–1649
- 11 Protestant churchmen and the Confederate Wars
- 12 The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems?
- 13 Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples
- 14 Interests in Ireland: the ‘fanatic zeal and irregular ambition’ of Richard Lawrence
- 15 Temple's fate: reading The Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland
- 16 Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneux's Case of Ireland … Stated (1698)
- Principal publications of Aidan Clarke
- Index
10 - Catholic Confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641–1649
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Aidan Clarke: an appreciation
- Conventions
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Making good: New perspectives on the English in early modern Ireland
- 2 The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland
- 3 Dynamics of regional development: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of south-east Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland
- 4 The ‘common good’ and the university in an age of confessional conflict
- 5 The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599–1614
- 6 The Bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised
- 7 ‘That Bugbear Arminianism’: Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin
- 8 The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640–1641
- 9 The Irish elections of 1640–1641
- 10 Catholic Confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641–1649
- 11 Protestant churchmen and the Confederate Wars
- 12 The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems?
- 13 Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples
- 14 Interests in Ireland: the ‘fanatic zeal and irregular ambition’ of Richard Lawrence
- 15 Temple's fate: reading The Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland
- 16 Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneux's Case of Ireland … Stated (1698)
- Principal publications of Aidan Clarke
- Index
Summary
On Wednesday 17 January 1649, at a lavish ceremony in Kilkenny Castle, the Catholic Confederates signed a peace treaty with the lord lieutenant, James Butler, marquis of Ormond. In an emotional speech, the chairman of the Confederate General Assembly, Sir Richard Blake, hoped the agreement would ‘restore this nation in its former lustre’. Ormond responded generously, with a promise of further concessions from the king. In an uncharacteristically dramatic flourish, he announced: ‘There are no bounds to your hopes.’ The mutually congratulatory nature of these proceedings belied the six years of tortuous and often rancorous negotiations which preceded the agreement. Historians of the mid-seventeenth century have tended to focus on the bitter religious divisions of the period. But attempts by Confederates and royalists to clarify the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England proved equally controversial. The operation of Poynings' Law and increasing interference by the English parliament in Irish affairs emerged as the two key points of contention during peace talks.
In an article on the political thought of Patrick Darcy, Aidan Clarke argues that the Confederate stance on Poynings' Law was an issue of trust rather than constitutional principle. They were only interested in a suspension of the act in order to speed up the ratification of treaty terms by the Irish parliament, without interference from the king.
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- British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland , pp. 207 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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