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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES. 6: Women and War, 1550-1660. Women and War, 1550-1660. 1534: The Kildare Rebellion 1556: Plantation in Counties Laois and Offaly 1569: Butler Revolt 1579-83: The Desmond Rebellion 1580: The Baltinglass Rebellion 1586: The Munster Plantations

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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

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  1. CONTESTINGHISTORYOPPOSINGVOICES 6: Women and War, 1550-1660

  2. Women and War, 1550-1660 • 1534: The Kildare Rebellion • 1556: Plantation in Counties Laois and Offaly • 1569: Butler Revolt • 1579-83: The Desmond Rebellion • 1580: The Baltinglass Rebellion • 1586: The Munster Plantations • 1595-1603: Nine Years War • 1607: Flight of the Earls • 1608: Rebellion of Sir Cahir O’Doherty • 1610: The Plantation of Ulster • 1641: Outbreak of Rebellion in Ireland • 1652: Final Parliamentarian victory in Ireland

  3. Women and War, 1550-1660 • New opportunities provided by War • Local Arena • Work and Services • Women take on traditional male roles • Representation among Settlers and English: • Devilish Viragos • Amazons • Preservers of Catholicism • Settlers and Emigrants? • The Nobility, the Middling Sort, and Peasants • Women and the Law

  4. Women and War, 1550-1660 • Further Reading: • Mary Cullen, ‘History women and history men – the politics of women’s history’, in Daltun Ó Ceallaigh (ed.), Reconsiderations of Irish history and culture: selected papers from the Desmond Greaves summer school, 1989-93 (Dublin, 1994) • Bernadette Whelan, “ ‘The Weaker Vessel”? The impact of warfare on women in seventeenth-century Ireland’ in Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless (eds), Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women, 4: Victims or Viragos? (Dublin, 2005)

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