‘Not Christian, Civil or Human Creatures, But Heathen or Rather Savage and Brute Beasts’: Andrew Trollope and the ‘Reform’ of Ireland in the 1580s

David Heffernan
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David Heffernan: Independent Scholar, Ireland

Irish Economic and Social History, 2022, vol. 49, issue 1, 30-46

Abstract: The closing years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) saw a hardening of attitudes among many of the New English in Ireland towards the Irish and Old English communities there. Historians have concentrated on a number of works which exemplify this attitude, notably Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland . This article focuses on an earlier proponent of this outlook, a wandering lawyer, Andrew Trollope. In the 1580s, Trollope composed two extensive treatises on Ireland which contain some of the most vituperative attacks written by a Tudor commentator on the Irish, their character, religion and society. Often commented upon, though never examined in detail, this article provides the first in-depth assessment of Trollope’s writings.

Keywords: Elizabethan Ireland; Irish; Old English; reform; religion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/03324893211039208

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