AN EXAMINATION OF THE VARIOUS DIMENSIONS - POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND
ECONOMIC - TO THE EVOLUTION OF FRANCO-IRISH RELATIONS IN THE EARLY
MODERN PERIOD.
The period 1500 to 1610 witnessed a fundamental transformation in the
nature of Franco-Irish relations. In 1500 contact was exclusively
based on trade and small-scale migration. However, from the early
1520s to the early 1580s, the dynamics of "normal" relations were
significantly altered as unprecedented political contacts between
Ireland and France were cultivated. These ties were abandoned when,
after decades of unsuccessful approaches to the French crown for
military and financial support for their opposition to the Tudor
regime in Ireland, Irish dissidents redirected their pleas to the
court of Philip II of Spain. Trade and migration, which had continued
at a modest level throughout the sixteenth century, re-emerged in the
early 1600s as the most important and enduring channels of contact
between the France and Ireland, though the scale of both had increased
dramatically since the early sixteenth century. In particular, the
unprecedented influx of several thousand Irish migrants into France in
the later stages and in the aftermath of the Nine Years' War in
Ireland (1594-1603) represented a watershed in Franco-Irish relations
inthe early modern period.
By 1610 Ireland and Irish people were known to a significantly larger
section of French society than had been the case 100 years before. The
intensification of their contacts notwithstanding, the intricacies of
Irish domestic political, religious and ideological conflicts
continued to elude the vast majority of educated Frenchmen, including
those at the highest rank in government and diplomatic circles. In
their minds, Ireland remained an exotic country whose people they
judged to be as offensive, slothful, dirty, prolific and uncouth in
the streets of their cities and towns as they were depicted in the
French scholarly tracts read by the French elite. This study explores
the various dimensions to this important chapter in the evolution of
Franco-Irish relations in the early modern period.
MARY ANN LYONS lectures in the Department of History, St Patrick's
College,Drumcondra, Dublin City University.
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ISBN
9781846150753
Publisert
2022
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Royal Historical Society
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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