The Irish Lord Lietenancy: c 1541 - 1922 - Rilegato

 
9781906359607: The Irish Lord Lietenancy: c 1541 - 1922
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 1906359601 ISBN 13: 9781906359607
Casa editrice: Univ College Dublin Pr, 2012

Sinossi

For over 300 years the government of Ireland was headed by the lord lieutenant, a peer who combined the 'efficient' direction of the Irish executive on behalf of the British crown with the 'decorative' role of viceroy or surrogate of the crown at the centre of the Irish court at Dublin Castle. In this volume a number of leading historians explore the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political, social and cultural - between its gradual emergence in the wake of the Tudor proclamation of the 'Kingdom of Ireland' in 1541, and the office's abolition in the context of revolution, independence and partition in 1922. They build on recent research into the complex historical relationship between the British monarchy and Ireland in evaluating the often contradictory roles played by viceroys in British-Irish relations.While the contributors assess the relationship between the lord lieutenancy and the varied and often contested state-building and nation-building activities of the British state in Ireland, they also illuminate the range of personalities of the peers who held the office, and the contribution these incumbents made to defining in practice a role that was always constitutionally opaque. Over the course of more than three centuries, lords lieutenant were at different times military strongmen, quasi-regal Irish magnates, absentee courtiers, activist chief executives and powerless figureheads. Long before the extinction of the office many in both Ireland and Britain had come to question its purpose and efficacy, yet it endured until British rule ended with the establishment of the Irish Free State. This volume sets out to explain the longevity of this governing institution, and unravel both what it symbolised and what it amounted to in substance.

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xii 244p hardback, decorative dustjacket, several plates, a clean and firm copy, like new

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Editore
Univ College Dublin Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1906359601
ISBN 13 
9781906359607
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
244
Redattore
Gray Peter, Purdue Olwen
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