Surviving Kinsale

Irish Emigration and Identity Formation in Early Modern Spain, 1601–40

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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In the aftermath of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 as many as 10,000 Irish emigrated from Ireland to Galicia in the north-west of Spain. Between 1601 and 1608 the brunt of this immigration fell on the city of La Coruña, which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, women, children, elderly and poor. This is the story of that community and how its members adapted to their new circumstances, and how they themselves, their social structures and beliefs were transformed by their immigrant experience. Through an examination of the community across a broad range of social cultural aspects such as family, literacy, material culture, the acquisition of honours, religious sentiment, and social ascent, important new insights into Irish socio-cultural history have been uncovered.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-07-01
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Early Modern European History
Antal sidor280
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719088582

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IntroductionPart I: Irish-Spanish Relations (1580–1608)1. The Irish and Spanish socio-political contexts2. Irish emigration to GaliciaPart II: The Community in La Coruña3. Kinship and family structures4. Literacy, language, and material culture5. Religosity and religious sentimentPart III: Accessing Patronage at the Spanish court6. The Spanish Court, networks and political control 7. Nobility and blood purity8. The crisis of the ‘Spanish Irishry’ Part IV: Acculturation, Assimilation, and Identity Formation9. Networks, acculturation and identity formation10. Moriscos, Sephardic Jews, and the Irish in FranceConclusionIndex

‘The present book is a valuable regional study of Irish immigration to the Iberianpeninsula; in its broad social range and the attention given to kinship, itbrings the role of women and families into focus; it is a welcome contributionto the expanding literature on Irish migration in the early modern period.’BrianMac Cuarta SJ, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Irish Economic and SocialHistory 44 (1)