Irish Townspeople
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Author_Colm Lennon
boroughs
built environment
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central government in Ireland
chaplains
charity
charters
civic coats of arms
civic privilege
civic religion
coexistence
colleges
confraternities
Confraternity studies
Cork
corporate
discriminatory rhetoric
Drogheda
early modern Ireland
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forthcoming
fraternity
Gaelic
Galway
guilds
inclusion
intercessory devotion
Irish urban centres
Irish urban setting
Kilkenny
leprosaria
Limerick
marriage
matrimony
medieval Ireland
medieval past
mercy
migrants
migration
misericordia
Old English
oligarchy
parish
philanthropy
planning
plaques and naming
recusancy
religious confraternities
resilience
self-image
shadow citizenship
social capital
social networks
toleration
topography
town histories
towns
urban automony
urban culture
Urban government
Urban history
urbanism
welfare
widows
Product details
- ISBN 9781526193421
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through a series of innovative perspectives, this book examines how early modern Irish townspeople experienced the urban world through a range of family and associational ties. Migrants inducted through town citizenship and marriage bonded more closely as sisters or brothers of confraternities and guilds, consolidating parish membership. Civic religion saw the integration of religion with town politics and councils, and monastic charity of the friars’ hospitals preceded the era of modern municipal welfare. In circumstances of the alienation of the long-settled Catholic townspeople from the state’s religious and political Reformation in the seventeenth century, they drew sustenance from the continuity of institutions such as colleges, fraternities and hospitals and forms of coexistence with Protestant fellow-citizens.
Colm Lennon is Emeritus Professor of History at Maynooth University. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy
