This volume - focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee - shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to scrutiny when investigated at local level. Christianization, Norman conquests, Cromwellian confiscations, religious persecution and Irish- European smuggling are all examined and shown to be much messier enterprises than popularly imagined, while equally complex was the village' s founder, Theobald MacGhee, a smuggler comfortably married into one of Kerry' s high-status gentry families.
| ISBN: | 9781801510950 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2023 |
| Author: | Denis Casey |
| Publisher: | Four Courts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 72 pages |
| Series: | Maynooth Studies in Local History |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history |
This volume - focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee - shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to scrutiny when investigated at local level. Christianization, Norman conquests, Cromwellian confiscations, religious persecution and Irish- European smuggling are all examined and shown to be much messier enterprises than popularly imagined, while equally complex was the village' s founder, Theobald MacGhee, a smuggler comfortably married into one of Kerry' s high-status gentry families.
Portmagee, County Kerry features in the following genres: Social and cultural history
Portmagee, County Kerry is available in Paperback
Portmagee, County Kerry was written by Denis Casey and published by Four Courts Press
Portmagee, County Kerry has 72 pages
Yes it is part of Maynooth Studies in Local History series
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