Irish Historical Studies

Vol. XLIII No. 163 May 2019 IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES

The joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies Joint editors: Liam Chambers and Marie Coleman Copy-editor: Máire Ní Chearbhaill

ARTICLES

Defending the English Pale: the viceroyalty of Richard Nugent, third baron of Delvin, 1527–8 by Steven G. Ellis 1 Michael Jones and the survival of the Church of Ireland, 1647–9 by Patrick Little 12 ‘Craven subserviency had vanished. Bitter hostility had arrived’: agrarian violence and the Tenant League on the Ulster borderlands, 1849–52 by Kerron Ó Luain 27 The Gaelic League and the spatial logics of Irish nationalism by Aidan Beatty 55 Irish republican women in Australia: Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns’s tour in 1924–5 by Dianne Hall 73 Locating women within the Irish Department of External Affairs: a case study of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923–76 by Ann Marie O’Brien 94 Select document: ‘Petition of the inhabitants of Cavan to the lord deputy and council’, 8 July 1629 by Brendan Scott 111 Reviews and short notices 126

EDITORS Liam Chambers, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Marie Coleman, Queen’s University Belfast

EDITORIAL/MANAGEMENT BOARD Peter Connell, Trinity College, Dublin (Treasurer) David Dickson, Trinity College, Dublin Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast David Hayton, Queen’s University, Belfast (Chairman) Jacqueline Hill, Maynooth University (Secretary) James Kelly, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra Together with the Editors.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Thomas Charles-Edwards, University of Oxford Marianne Elliott, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Roy Foster, University of Oxford Lyndon Fraser, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Nathalie Genet-Roufﬁ ac, Service Historique de la Défense, France Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Melbourne, Australia Kerby Miller, University of Missouri, U.S.A. Kevin O’Neill, Boston College, U.S.A. Michael Perceval-Maxwell, McGill University, Canada Donal McCracken, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Peter Solar, Vesalius College, Belgium Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ULSTER SOCIETY FOR IRISH President HISTORICAL STUDIES Pauric Travers, Dublin City University President Secretary Andrew Sneddon, Ulster University Ciarán Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin Secretary Treasurer John Cunningham, Queen’s University, Belfast Peter Crooks, Trinity College, Dublin Treasurer Committee Marie Coleman, Queen’s University, Belfast Catherine Cox, University College, Dublin Committee Michael Cronin, Boston College Elaine Farrell, Queen’s University, Belfast David Dickson, Trinity College, Dublin Darragh Gannon, Queen’s University, Belfast Diarmaid Ferriter, University College, Dublin Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast Jacqueline Hill, Maynooth University David Hayton, Queen’s University, Belfast James Kelly, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra Andrew Holmes, Queen’s University, Belfast Conor Mulvagh, University College, Dublin Leanne McCormick, Ulster University Jennifer Redmond, Maynooth University Ian Miller, Ulster University Editorial committee Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum Ciaran Brady, Trinity College, Dublin Aidan Clarke, Trinity College, Dublin

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Vol. XLIII No. 163 May 2019

CONTENTS

ARTICLES Defending the English Pale: the viceroyalty of Richard Nugent, third baron of Delvin, 1527–8 by Steven G. Ellis 1 Michael Jones and the survival of the Church of Ireland, 1647–9 by Patrick Little 12 ‘Craven subserviency had vanished. Bitter hostility had arrived’: agrarian violence and the Tenant League on the Ulster borderlands, 1849–52 by Kerron Ó Luain 27 The Gaelic League and the spatial logics of Irish nationalism by Aidan Beatty 55 Irish republican women in Australia: Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns’s tour in 1924–5 by Dianne Hall 73 Locating women within the Irish Department of External Affairs: a case study of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923–76 by Ann Marie O’Brien 94 Select document: ‘Petition of the inhabitants of Cavan to the lord deputy and council’, 8 July 1629 by Brendan Scott 111

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES Bannerman, Kinship, church and culture: collected essays and studies by Nicholas Evans 126 Meeder, The Irish scholarly presence at St Gall: networks of knowledge in the early middle ages by Elke Krotz 127 Ó Corráin, The Irish church, its reform and the English invasion by Henry Jefferies 128 Browne and Ó Clabaigh, Soldiers of Christ: the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in medieval Ireland by Kathryn Hurlock 130 Busby, French in medieval Ireland, Ireland in medieval French: the paradox of two worlds by Sparky Booker 131 Crooks, Green and Ormrod, The Plantagenet empire, 1259–1453: proceedings of the 2014 Harlaxton Symposium by Colin Veach 132 McInerney, Clerical and learned lineages of medieval Co. Clare: a survey of the ﬁfteenth-century papal register by Freya Verstraten Veach 133 Anderson and Kearney, Ireland and the reception of the Bible: social and cultural perspectives by Laurence Kirkpatrick 134 Farrell, The ‘mere Irish’ and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570–1641 by Henry Jefferies 136

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