The South-West Coast of Ireland from Dungarvan to the River Shannon/ Kinsale Harbour

Title

The South-West Coast of Ireland from Dungarvan to the River Shannon/ Kinsale Harbour

Description

Representation of south west Irland, on iset map Kinsale near Cork

ca. 1748

Artist

Mount & Page

Historical Description

In the Roman Empire, Ireland was known as Hiberna, the classical latin name. The Norman invasion of the late 12th century marked the beginning of more than 800 years of direct English rule and, later, British involvement in Ireland. Attempts to either conquer or assimilate the Irish lordships into the Kingdom of Ireland provided the initial impetus for a series of Irish military campaigns between 1534 and 1603. This period was marked by a Crown policy of plantation, involving the arrival of thousands of English and ScottishProtestant settlers, and the consequent displacement of the pre-plantation Catholic landholders. As the military and political defeat of Gaelic Ireland became more pronounced in the early seventeenth century, sectarian conflict became a recurrent theme in Irish history.