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  • John Toland (1670–1722), Donegal heretic

  • J.G. Simms
  • Journal:
    Irish Historical Studies / Volume 16 / Issue 63 / March 1969
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2016, pp. 304-320
    Print publication:
    March 1969

  • John Toland was one of the most remarkable of Swift’s Irish contemporaries. He was a man of many parts and extraordinary versatility: a linguist with some claims to scholarship, a political propagandist and a speculative-thinker. At the same time, he was brash and indiscreet, with the result that he fell out with one patron after another and was forced to make a precarious living as a Grub Street hack. But his writings influenced later generations, were translated into French and German, and gave him an international reputation as one of the forerunners of the age of reason.

  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (1603-1702)

  • J.G. Simms
  • Journal:
    Irish Historical Studies / Volume 15 / Issue 60 / September 1967
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2016, pp. 366-375
    Print publication:
    September 1967

  • The seventeenth century was a period of great changes in Ireland. There were successive transfers of land from catholic to protestant ownership; political and administrative power passed into the hands of a ‘new English’ minority. Two major attempts to reverse these trends—the confederate and Jacobite wars—proved disastrous for those who supported the legitimate monarchy. The catholic church was for much of the period on the defensive, and at the end of the century was subjected to severe legal restraints. The Irish economy was seriously affected by two wars, and the resilience that it showed in the intervals was limited by the requirements of English commercial policy.

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