Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series editors’ preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the confederate wars revisited
- 1 Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43
- 2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642
- 3 ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
- 4 ‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45
- 5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48
- 6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48
- 7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
- 8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649
- 9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics
- 10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland
- Index
3 - ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series editors’ preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the confederate wars revisited
- 1 Holding on: the earl of Cork’s Blackwater army and the defence of Protestant Munster, 1641–43
- 2 The Sea Adventure to Munster and Connacht, July and August 1642
- 3 ‘To hold a good opinion of my loyalty and zealous affections’: the earl of Clanricarde and the royalist cause in Connacht, 1643–46
- 4 ‘Clotworthy is a zealous man, yet hath his purse well lined’: Sir John Clotworthy, John Davies and the politics of supply, 1644–45
- 5 The Irish Parliament after the rebellion, 1642–48
- 6 The recruiter returns to the Irish Parliament, 1642–48
- 7 The politics of preferment: the marquess of Ormond, Archbishop Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1643–47
- 8 The marquess of Ormond, Lord Montgomery of the Ards and the problem of authority in Ulster, 1649
- 9 The confederate Catholics of Ireland and popular politics
- 10 Oliver Cromwell, priestcraft and the ‘deluded and seduced’ people of Ireland
- Index
Summary
Aoife Duignan’s chapter considers the 5th earl of Clanricarde’s ‘increasingly lonely struggle’ as (it seemed) the only Catholic royalist in the province. As a nobleman of honour, Clanricarde found the ambiguities of his situation difficult to face: although he remained faithful to the king he was constantly passed over or rebuffed by his royal master; and although he could not join his confederate friends and relatives in rebellion, he could (just) stomach cooperating with them against a bigger enemy, such as the Protestant army of Sir Charles Coote.
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