Bøger af Charles Ivar McGrath

This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 - Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 - Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 - Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 - Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 - Subsidy Act, 1641 - Proclamation of Phelim O'Neill &c., 24 Oct. 1641, 1642 - Acts of the Ecclesiastical Congregation, Kilkenny, 10-13 May 1642, 1642 - Petition of the Confederate Supreme Council to Charles I, 31 July 1642, 1648 - Speech of Capt. Oliver French, agent of the Supreme Council, to the States General of the United Provinces, 5 May 1648, 1650s - Cromwellian Union, 1678 - Draft legislation for banishing Catholic prelates and regular clergy, 1689 - Jacobite parliament's Act of Attainder, 1697 - Bishops' Banishment Act, 1700 - Act of Resumption, 1723 - Address of the House of Commons to the king on Wood's halfpence, 27 Sept. 1723, 1745 - The question of security and Scottish Jacobite rising, 1778 - Formation of the first Volunteer units, 1782 - Catholic Relief Act, 1796 - The Insurrection Act, 1798 - Documents on the rebellion.

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two key areas of empire-building: finance and defence.