Anglo-Irish Identities 1571-1845

This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological personal and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish the Protestant Ascendancy or the English in Ireland a group that existed in a world of contested ideological political and cultural identities. At the root of this conflicted sense of self was an acute awareness among the Anglo-Irish of their liminal position as colonial dominators in Ireland who were viewed as 'other' both by the Catholic natives of Ireland and their English kinsmen. The work in this volume is highly interdisciplinary bringing to bear examination of issues that are historical literary economic and sociological.