Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland exhibition material: Difference between revisions

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* FACSIMILE. ''Galwaye; Dublin; Lymericke; Corcke'' from ''Civitates Orbis Terrarum''. Cologne: Anton Hierat & Abraham Hogenberg, 1618. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=335903 ART 229- 985 no.11 (size L)]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/7e65tx inset map of Dublin].     
* FACSIMILE. ''Galwaye; Dublin; Lymericke; Corcke'' from ''Civitates Orbis Terrarum''. Cologne: Anton Hierat & Abraham Hogenberg, 1618. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=335903 ART 229- 985 no.11 (size L)]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/7e65tx inset map of Dublin].     
* FACSIMILE from the University of Edinburgh. John Derricke. ''Image of Irelande''. London: J. Kingston, 1581.  ([http://old.folger.edu/imgdtl.cfm?imageid=5202&cid=4382 Image])
* FACSIMILE from the [http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery# University of Edinburgh]. John Derricke. ''Image of Irelande''. London: J. Kingston, 1581. Shelfmark: [http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/FullHoldingsInfo?searchId=5758&recPointer=2&recCount=10&bibId=1059852 De.3.76] and ([http://old.folger.edu/imgdtl.cfm?imageid=5202&cid=4382 Image])
* Letter of command signed from Elizabeth I, Queen of England, to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Manuscript, November 4, 1568. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=193159 X.d.127] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/69eo9x LUNA Digital Image].     
* Letter of command signed from Elizabeth I, Queen of England, to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Manuscript, November 4, 1568. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=193159 X.d.127] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/69eo9x LUNA Digital Image].     
* Lodowick Bryskett. ''A Discourse of Civill Life''. London: William Aspley, 1606. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161156 STC 3959; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9m24k3 p. 1 (sig B1r)]     
* Lodowick Bryskett. ''A Discourse of Civill Life''. London: William Aspley, 1606. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161156 STC 3959; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9m24k3 p. 1 (sig B1r)]     
* FACSIMILE. William Wynne Ryland. ''Sir Philip Sidney''. 18th century. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=253269 ART File S569 no.6 (size XS)] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/83e5w7 LUNA Digital Image].
* FACSIMILE. William Wynne Ryland. ''Sir Philip Sidney''. 18th century. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=253269 ART File S569 no.6 (size XS)] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/83e5w7 LUNA Digital Image].
* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. After Arnold van Brounkhorst. Portrait of Sir Henry Sidney (1529–86), Lord Deputy of Ireland. Oil on panel, 16th century.  
* FACSIMILE from the [http://www.nationalgallery.ie National Gallery of Ireland]. After Arnold van Brounkhorst. ''Portrait of Sir Henry Sidney (1529–86), Lord Deputy of Ireland''. Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/278/178/primaryMaker-asc;jsessionid=80A05D596F0F01C1C5C38E07225F4220?t%3Astate%3Aflow=de77f96b-7c37-47ce-9d61-202e13ad794e NGI.880].
* Richard Stanyhurst. ''Harmonia seu Catena Dialectica''. London: For Reginald Wolf, 1570. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161560 STC 23229]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3b73f8 sig. a2] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/c5e444 LUNA Digital Image].
* Richard Stanyhurst. ''Harmonia seu Catena Dialectica''. London: For Reginald Wolf, 1570. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161560 STC 23229]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3b73f8 sig. a2] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/c5e444 LUNA Digital Image].
* Edmund Campion. ''Two Histories of Ireland''. Dublin: Societie of Stationers, 1633. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169229 STC 25067a copy 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0h0rri sig. ¶2r].     
* Edmund Campion. ''Two Histories of Ireland''. Dublin: Societie of Stationers, 1633. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169229 STC 25067a copy 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0h0rri sig. ¶2r].     
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* Richard Stanyhurst. ''De Rebus de Hibernia Gestis...''1584. Call number: DA930.S8 1584 Cage; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/wd12s2 title page].     
* Richard Stanyhurst. ''De Rebus de Hibernia Gestis...''1584. Call number: DA930.S8 1584 Cage; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/wd12s2 title page].     
* Richard Stanyhurst. ''The First Foure Bookes of Virgil’s Aeneis''. London: Henry Bynneman, 1583. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164027 STC 24807]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/830s0y p. 1].  
* Richard Stanyhurst. ''The First Foure Bookes of Virgil’s Aeneis''. London: Henry Bynneman, 1583. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164027 STC 24807]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/830s0y p. 1].  
* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. Attributed to the Master of the Countess of Warwick. Portrait of “The Fair Geraldine,” Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess of Lincoln (ca. 1528–90). Oil on panel, 16th century. [https://flic.kr/p/dKE8dM Image].
* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. Attributed to the Master of the Countess of Warwick. ''Portrait of “The Fair Geraldine,” Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess of Lincoln (ca. 1528–90)''. Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/People@1702/0?t%3Astate%3Aflow=a1c93c16-ebc0-481a-88f3-b56b418a9537 NGI.1195] and [https://flic.kr/p/dKE8dM Image].
* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Sonnet to Elizabeth Fitgerald in ''Songs and Sonets''. London: Richard Tottell, 1574. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161375 STC 13866 Copy 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/v74ov0 fol. 5r] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/y00ycv LUNA Digital Image].   
* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Sonnet to Elizabeth Fitgerald in ''Songs and Sonets''. London: Richard Tottell, 1574. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161375 STC 13866 Copy 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/v74ov0 fol. 5r] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/y00ycv LUNA Digital Image].   
* Thomas Nashe. ''The Unfortunate Traveller''. London: T. Scarlet, 1594. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163672 STC 18380]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0v49l2 p. 35].  
* Thomas Nashe. ''The Unfortunate Traveller''. London: T. Scarlet, 1594. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163672 STC 18380]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/0v49l2 p. 35].  
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* Raphael Holinshed. ''Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande''. London: Henry Bynneman, 1577. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=171416 STC 13567.8 Vol. 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/ga2o9o p. 98–99] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/5pfk5r LUNA Digital Image].
* Raphael Holinshed. ''Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande''. London: Henry Bynneman, 1577. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=171416 STC 13567.8 Vol. 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/ga2o9o p. 98–99] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/5pfk5r LUNA Digital Image].


== Thomas Butler (wall before case 4) ==
== Continuity & Change: Ormond’s Leinster (wall before case 4 and case 4) ==


* FACSIMILE from the [http://www.nationalgallery.ie National Gallery of Ireland]. Attributed to Steven van der Meule. ''Portrait of Thomas Butler (1532–1614), tenth Earl of Ormond''. Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/236/74/sortNumber-asc?t%3Astate%3Aflow=a0aa684a-14f6-4fb0-a4a3-d467d87e895b NGI.4687] and [https://flic.kr/p/dKKAij Image].
As their rivals the Kildares fell from grace, the earls of Ormond rose to fill their place as the crown's Irish favorite. The greatest of the Ormond earls was [https://flic.kr/p/dKKAij Thomas "Black Tom" Butler] (1531–1614), tenth earl of Ormond. He was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth and a man of immense wealth, connection, and diplomatic skill across cultural lines. While the earl's brothers in Tipperary took up arms against the government in 1569, Black Tom was staunchly loyal and helped to supress his rebellious brethren. Ormond spent many years at court in London and he also owned property in England. His proximity to the queen and near total power over his Irish territories aroused the envy of rivals on both islands.


== Continuity & Change: Ormond’s Leinster (case 4) ==
=== Items included ===


=== Items included ===
==== Wall before case 4 ====
 
* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. Attributed to Steven van der Meule. ''Portrait of Thomas Butler (1532–1614), tenth Earl of Ormond''. Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/236/74/sortNumber-asc?t%3Astate%3Aflow=a0aa684a-14f6-4fb0-a4a3-d467d87e895b NGI.4687] and [https://flic.kr/p/dKKAij Image].
 
==== Case 4 ====


* Dermot O'Meara. Ormonius. London: Thomas Snodham, 1615. STC 17761; displayed title page  
* Dermot O'Meara. ''Ormonius''. London: Thomas Snodham, 1615. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=165505 STC 17761]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/83069p title page].
* Genealogies of earls of England and Ireland. Manuscript, 1581–c.1625. V.a.266; displayed leaf between 20 + 21  
* ''Genealogies of earls of England and Ireland''. Manuscript, 1581 – c.1625. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=233268 V.a.266]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/7meg1f leaf between 20 & 21].
* LOAN from Harvard University Library. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. Agso Duainaire Aodhamac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Shelf Mark MS Ir6.
* LOAN courtesy of [http://library.harvard.edu Houghton Library], Harvard University. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. ''Ag so Duainaire Aodha mac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara''. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Harvard call number: [http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009493151/catalog MS Ir 6] and [http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/46911124 Harvard Digital Copy].
* FACSIMILE from Harvard University Library. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. Agso Duainaire Aodhamac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Shelf Mark MS Ir6
* FACSIMILE from Houghton Library, Harvard University. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. ''Ag so Duainaire Aodha mac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara''. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Houghton Call number: [http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009493151/catalog MS Ir 6] and [http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/46911124 Harvard Digital Copy].
* FACSIMILE from Royal Irish Academy. Míchéal mac Peadair Uí Longáin, scribe. Miscellany, “Toghaim Tomas rogha” on “Black Thomas” Butler. Manuscript, 18th century. Shelf Mark MS 23 N 15.
* FACSIMILE from [https://www.ria.ie Royal Irish Academy]. Míchéal mac Peadair Uí Longáin, scribe. ''Miscellany'', “Toghaim Tomas rogha” on “Black Thomas” Butler. Manuscript, 18th century. Shelf-mark RIA, MS 23 N 15 and ([http://old.folger.edu/imgdtl.cfm?imageid=5206&cid=4384 Image]).
* FACSIMILE from the Huntington Library. Thomas Churchyard. A Scourge for Rebels. London: Thomas Dawson, 1584. Shelf Mark 56400.
* FACSIMILE from the Huntington Library. Thomas Churchyard. ''A Scourge for Rebels''. London: Thomas Dawson, 1584. Call number: [http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1498099~S0 56400] and ([http://old.folger.edu/imgdtl.cfm?imageid=5207&cid=4384 Image]).
* Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. London: John Wolfe, 1590. STC 23080; displayed 2Q2v–2Q2r  
* Edmund Spenser. ''The Faerie Queene''. London: John Wolfe, 1590. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=170392 STC 23080 Copy 1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/h1ev4v sig. 2Q2v–2Q2r] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/83x28a LUNA Digital Image].
* Attributed to Thomas Morgan. Leycesters Commonwealth. Paris, 1584. STC 19399; displayed p. 44–45  
* Attributed to Thomas Morgan. ''Leycesters Commonwealth''. Paris, 1584. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=162978 STC 19399]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/aama4r p. 44–45].


== Wall after Case 4 ==
== Wall after Case 4 ==
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== Rebellion in Munster: the Fall of Desmond (case 5) ==
== Rebellion in Munster: the Fall of Desmond (case 5) ==
Like Ormond and Kildare, the house of Desmond in the southwest had a long, wealthy, and proud history in Ireland dating back to the Anglo-Norman invasion. Unlike its rivals to the north and east, however, it did not survive the Tudor period. The fifteenth earl launched a major rebellion that was crushed in 1583, and the crown, on the grounds of treason, siezed the earl's property and that of his rebel associates. The Desmonds had been one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in England and Ireland in the mid-sixteenth century; by the early seventeenth century, they had become powerless, and their titles passed into the hands of Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall, one of King James's Scottish favorites.


=== Items included ===
=== Items included ===


* LOAN from Rolf and Magda Loeber. Francesco Petrarch. Le Volgari Opere del Petrarcha con la Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello da Lucca. Venice, 1525.  
* LOAN courtesy of Rolf and Magda Loeber. Francesco Petrarch. ''Le Volgari Opere del Petrarcha con la Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello da Lucca''. Venice, 1525.  
* FACSIMILE from Lambeth Palace. Desmond pedigree. 17th century. Shelf Mark MS 610.  
* FACSIMILE from [http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Lambeth Palace]. Desmond pedigree. 17th century. Order No. MS 610.  
* Thomas Churchyard. The Miserie of Flaunders. London: Felix Kingston, 1579. STC 5243; displayed D1  
* Thomas Churchyard. ''The miserie of Flaunders, calamitie of Fraunce, misfortune of Portugall, unquietnes of Irelande, troubles of Scotlande: and the blessed state of Englande''. London: Felix Kingston, 1579. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=160725 STC 5243]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/ipu767 sig. C3v–D1].  
* FACSIMILE from Cambridge University Library. A[nthony] M[unday]. The True Reporte of the Prosperous Successe which God Gave Unto our English Souldiours. London: Edward White, 1581.   
* FACSIMILE from Cambridge University Library. A[nthony] M[unday]. ''The True Reporte of the Prosperous Successe which God Gave Unto our English Souldiours''. London: Edward White, 1581.   
* Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. London: Richard Field, 1596. STC 23082 copy 2; displayed Gg3/466–467   
* Edmund Spenser. ''The Faerie Queene''. London: Richard Field, 1596. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=167148 STC 23082 copy 2]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/vb8po5 p. 466–467] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/47gdpo LUNA Digital Image].


== Wall above Case 5 ==
== Wall above Case 5 ==


* FACSIMILE from the National Library of Ireland. Francis Jobson. The Province of Munster. ca. 1589. Shelf Mark 16 B 13.
* FACSIMILE from the [http://www.nli.ie National Library of Ireland]. Francis Jobson. ''The Province of Munster''. ca. 1589. Call number: [http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_040959/Holdings# MS 16 B 13].


== Vitrine after Case 5 ==
== Vitrine after Case 5 ==


* Raphael Holinshed. Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. London: Henry Denham, 1587. STC 13569 copy 2, vol. 1; displayed p. 172–173  
* Raphael Holinshed. ''Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande''. London: Henry Denham, 1587. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169337 STC 13569 Copy 2 v.1]; displayed [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/wxyj5v p. 172–173].


== Rise of the New English “New Men”: The Munster Plantation (case 6) ==
== Rise of the New English “New Men”: The Munster Plantation (case 6) ==
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=== Items included ===
=== Items included ===


* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. William Segar [attributed]. Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1522–1618). Oil on canvas, 16th century.
* FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. William Segar [attributed]. ''Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1522–1618), Soldier and Historian''. Oil on canvas, 16th century. NGI number: [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/278/28/sortNumber-asc?t%3Astate%3Aflow=b67bfbc3-1d85-47eb-a1a4-ae3044937894 NGI.281].
* LOAN from Elizabethan Gardens. Artist unknown, attributed to the school of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Portrait of Elizabeth I (1533–1603). Oil on oak panels, ca. 1593.
* LOAN from Elizabethan Gardens. Artist unknown, attributed to the school of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. ''Portrait of Elizabeth I (1533–1603)''. Oil on oak panels, ca. 1593. [https://flic.kr/p/dT9Vsr Image].
* FACSIMILE from Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library. Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Edmund Spenser (the “Kinnoul Portrait”. Oil on panel, early 17th century.
* FACSIMILE from Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library. ''Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–99), the Kinnoull Portrait''. Oil on panel, early 17th century. Image number: [https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/asset/84829/english-school-16th-century/portrait-of-a-gentleman-said-to-be-edmund-spenser-c-1552-99-the-kinnoull-portrait-panel MOU84829].


== Breaking the West: Queens, Captains, and Nobility in Connacht (case 7) ==
== Breaking the West: Queens, Captains, and Nobility in Connacht (case 7) ==

Revision as of 20:55, 20 May 2015

This article offers a comprehensive and descriptive list of each piece included in Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger.

London: City of Two Realms (case 1 and wall after case 1)

London bore a heavy Irish mark, politically and culturally, in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Richard Duke of York's return from Ireland in 1450, where he served as Governor and enjoyed great support, helped spark the Wars of the Roses. The first Tudor king, Henry VII, (crowned 1485), would in turn face two Yorkist invasions launched from Ireland. Ireland was made a kingdom by Act of Parliament in 1541, and the crown's efforts to control the western realm inspired sixteenth-century mapmakers and historians: Knowledge equals power, and the Tudor capital was awash in new maps, histories, ethnographies, and politcal treatises concerning Ireland and its governance. Literary London, meanwhile, played to popular sentiment and emphasized the exotic character of the Irish in prose, verse, and drama.

Items included

Case 1

Wall after case 1

Dublin (case 2)

English and Irish noble connections played out in Dublin much as they did in London—at times harmonious, at times violently contentious. Founded by Vikings in the ninth century, Dublin was always an international settlement, and it became the de facto capital of the island by the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion in the late twelfth century. This first "English" conquest established intimate connections—by blood, marriage, and alliance—between nominally "English" and nominally "Irish" aristocracy. By the late Tudor period, the descendants of these two groups had become the "Old English" and "native Irish" (or "Gaels") respectively, and both were predominantly Catholic. The Tudor reconquest then introduced a (mostly Protestant) "New English" interest to this mingled society and thereby added a new level of complexity to cosmopolitan Dublin and the rest of the country.

Items included

Turmoil in the Pale: the Decline of Kildare (case 3 and wall above case 3)

The English Pale was an ill-defined legislative zone create in 1494 to protect Dublin's hinterland from what lay beyond. From its inception, the Pale was a site of cultural hybridity, political negotiation, and occasional rebellion. Most local nobles were of mixed English-Irish ancestry and they had to maintain allegiance to the distant English crown while living among the Gaelic neighbors, who had their own established language, laws and traditions. After Henry VIII's break with Rome, the nobles also had to defend their Catholicism against a state-sponsored Protestantism. The greatest of these families was the Fitzgeralds, earls of Kildare, who were among the most powerful and wealthy lords in all of England and Ireland. Until their rebellion in the 1530s, they regularly served as the English crown's cheif governors in Ireland.

Items included

Case 3

  • Richard Stanyhurst. De Rebus de Hibernia Gestis...1584. Call number: DA930.S8 1584 Cage; displayed title page.
  • Richard Stanyhurst. The First Foure Bookes of Virgil’s Aeneis. London: Henry Bynneman, 1583. Call number: STC 24807; displayed p. 1.
  • FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. Attributed to the Master of the Countess of Warwick. Portrait of “The Fair Geraldine,” Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess of Lincoln (ca. 1528–90). Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: NGI.1195 and Image.
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Sonnet to Elizabeth Fitgerald in Songs and Sonets. London: Richard Tottell, 1574. Call number: STC 13866 Copy 1; displayed fol. 5r and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Thomas Nashe. The Unfortunate Traveller. London: T. Scarlet, 1594. Call number: STC 18380; displayed p. 35.

Wall above case 3

Continuity & Change: Ormond’s Leinster (wall before case 4 and case 4)

As their rivals the Kildares fell from grace, the earls of Ormond rose to fill their place as the crown's Irish favorite. The greatest of the Ormond earls was Thomas "Black Tom" Butler (1531–1614), tenth earl of Ormond. He was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth and a man of immense wealth, connection, and diplomatic skill across cultural lines. While the earl's brothers in Tipperary took up arms against the government in 1569, Black Tom was staunchly loyal and helped to supress his rebellious brethren. Ormond spent many years at court in London and he also owned property in England. His proximity to the queen and near total power over his Irish territories aroused the envy of rivals on both islands.

Items included

Wall before case 4

  • FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. Attributed to Steven van der Meule. Portrait of Thomas Butler (1532–1614), tenth Earl of Ormond. Oil on panel, 16th century. NGI number: NGI.4687 and Image.

Case 4

  • Dermot O'Meara. Ormonius. London: Thomas Snodham, 1615. Call number: STC 17761; displayed title page.
  • Genealogies of earls of England and Ireland. Manuscript, 1581 – c.1625. Call number: V.a.266; displayed leaf between 20 & 21.
  • LOAN courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. Ag so Duainaire Aodha mac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Harvard call number: MS Ir 6 and Harvard Digital Copy.
  • FACSIMILE from Houghton Library, Harvard University. Michael O’Byrne, scribe. Ag so Duainaire Aodha mac Seain UiBhruin ó Glen Moluara. Manuscript, compiled 1726–28. Houghton Call number: MS Ir 6 and Harvard Digital Copy.
  • FACSIMILE from Royal Irish Academy. Míchéal mac Peadair Uí Longáin, scribe. Miscellany, “Toghaim Tomas rogha” on “Black Thomas” Butler. Manuscript, 18th century. Shelf-mark RIA, MS 23 N 15 and (Image).
  • FACSIMILE from the Huntington Library. Thomas Churchyard. A Scourge for Rebels. London: Thomas Dawson, 1584. Call number: 56400 and (Image).
  • Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. London: John Wolfe, 1590. Call number: STC 23080 Copy 1; displayed sig. 2Q2v–2Q2r and LUNA Digital Image.
  • Attributed to Thomas Morgan. Leycesters Commonwealth. Paris, 1584. Call number: STC 19399; displayed p. 44–45.

Wall after Case 4

  • Plaster cast made from portrait in relief (1565–75) of King Edward VI, from the ornamental frieze of the Long Gallery, Ormond Castle, Carrick-On-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. Kindly reproduced for exhibition by the National Monument Service, Office of Public Works, Ireland.

Rebellion in Munster: the Fall of Desmond (case 5)

Like Ormond and Kildare, the house of Desmond in the southwest had a long, wealthy, and proud history in Ireland dating back to the Anglo-Norman invasion. Unlike its rivals to the north and east, however, it did not survive the Tudor period. The fifteenth earl launched a major rebellion that was crushed in 1583, and the crown, on the grounds of treason, siezed the earl's property and that of his rebel associates. The Desmonds had been one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in England and Ireland in the mid-sixteenth century; by the early seventeenth century, they had become powerless, and their titles passed into the hands of Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall, one of King James's Scottish favorites.

Items included

  • LOAN courtesy of Rolf and Magda Loeber. Francesco Petrarch. Le Volgari Opere del Petrarcha con la Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello da Lucca. Venice, 1525.
  • FACSIMILE from Lambeth Palace. Desmond pedigree. 17th century. Order No. MS 610.
  • Thomas Churchyard. The miserie of Flaunders, calamitie of Fraunce, misfortune of Portugall, unquietnes of Irelande, troubles of Scotlande: and the blessed state of Englande. London: Felix Kingston, 1579. Call number: STC 5243; displayed sig. C3v–D1.
  • FACSIMILE from Cambridge University Library. A[nthony] M[unday]. The True Reporte of the Prosperous Successe which God Gave Unto our English Souldiours. London: Edward White, 1581.
  • Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. London: Richard Field, 1596. Call number: STC 23082 copy 2; displayed p. 466–467 and LUNA Digital Image.

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Vitrine after Case 5

Rise of the New English “New Men”: The Munster Plantation (case 6)

Items included

  • Richard Beacon. Solon his Follie. Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1594. STC 1653.2; displayed title page
  • Copy of letter from Erhardus Stibarus to Erasmus Neustetter from Lotichius, Elegiarum (Lyon, 1553), in the hand of Edmund Spenser. Manuscript, copied after 1576. X.d.520
  • Georg Sabinus. Poemata. Leipzig, 1563? V.a.341; displayed title page
  • Edmund Spenser. Amoretti and Epithalamion. London: P. Short, 1595. STC 23076; displayed title page
  • Edmund Spenser. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. London: Thomas Creede, 1595. STC 23077 copy 4; displayed A2
  • Lodowick Bryskett. “A Pastorall Aeglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney Knight, & Co.” in Edmund Spenser Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. London: Thomas Creede, 1595. STC 23077 copy 2; displayed H2
  • FACSIMILE from the Royal Irish Academy. Feargal Dubh Ó Gadhra, scribe. Court verse. Poem by Eochaid Ó hEodhusa in O’Gara manuscript, 17th century. Shelf Mark MS 23 F 16.

Wall after Case 6

Items included

  • FACSIMILE from the National Gallery of Ireland. William Segar [attributed]. Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1522–1618), Soldier and Historian. Oil on canvas, 16th century. NGI number: NGI.281.
  • LOAN from Elizabethan Gardens. Artist unknown, attributed to the school of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Portrait of Elizabeth I (1533–1603). Oil on oak panels, ca. 1593. Image.
  • FACSIMILE from Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library. Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–99), the Kinnoull Portrait. Oil on panel, early 17th century. Image number: MOU84829.

Breaking the West: Queens, Captains, and Nobility in Connacht (case 7)

Items included

  • John Speed. Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. London: Thomas Snodham, 1616. STC 23044; displayed after p. 143
  • FACSIMILE from private collection. English School. Portrait of Sir William Fitzwilliam (1529–99), Lord Deputy of Ireland. 1595.
  • FACSIMILE from the National Portrait Gallery, London. Unknown artist. Sir Richard Bingham (1528–99). Oil on panel, 1564.
  • Program for The Pirate Queen. Hilton Theatre, New York. New York, 2007.
  • FACSIMILE from the Irish Image Collection/Getty Images. Rockfleet Castle on Clew Bay, County Mayo, Ireland (“Pirate Queen” Tower House). Photograph.
  • Conrad Heresbach. Foure Bookes of Husbandry. London: John Kingston, 1578. STC 13197 copy 2; displayed ij
  • John Milton. “Lycidas” from Justa Edouardo King Naufrago. Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1638. STC 14964; displayed p. 20–21

Wall after Case 7

Items included

  • FACSIMILE from the Royal Irish Academy. Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin, scribe. A collection of scraps of manuscripts written at various times and in various places. Manuscript, 1795–1821, and 1833. Shelf Mark MS 23 G 24.
  • FACSIMILE from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Sir Anthony van Dyck. The Marchioness of Worcester. Oil on canvas, ca. 1637.
  • Kilcolman Castle, County Cork. Contemporary photographs and virtual reconstruction on website, "Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for the Munster Plantation," constructed by the East Carolina University Multimedia Center.

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  • FACSIMILE. Mantle. Created December 2012 by Professor Robin Haller and students of the Textiles Program, School of Fine Arts and Communication, East Carolina University.

The Nine Year’s War (case 8)

Items included

  • Sir Thomas Stafford. Pacata Hibernia. London: Augustine Mathewes, 1633. STC 23132a; displayed fold-out between p. 188–189
  • Robert Bagot. Letter from Robert Bagot, Dublin, to Richard Bagot, Blithfield. Manuscript, February 24, 1598. L.a.85; displayed p. 376–377
  • Edmund Spenser. A View of the Present State of Ireland. In a miscellany on religion and state affairs, 1559–1601. Manuscript, compiled ca. 1601. V.b.214; displayed p. 137
  • Thomas Lee. The Discoverye and Recoverye of Ireland. Manuscript, ca. 1600. V.a.475; displayed title page
  • I.E. A Letter from a Souldier of Good Place in Ireland. London: Thomas Creede?, 1602. STC 7434 copy 1; displayed title page
  • William Shakespeare. Henry V. London: Printed for T.P.,1608. STC 22291 copy 1; displayed title page

James and the Three Kingdoms (case 9)

Items included

  • FACSIMILE. John Speed. Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. London: Thomas Snodham, 1616. STC 23044; displayed plate between 137–138
  • Respublica Sive Status Regni Scotiae et Hiberniae [The Commonweal, or, the description of royal power of Scotland and Ireland by diverse authors]. Leiden: Elzevir Press, 1627.
  • FACSIMILE from Clonalis House. “Poem in praise of James I,” from The Book of the O’Conor Don. Manuscript.
  • LOAN from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Transcribed by Domhnall ac Mothánna/Domhnal ac Taig. Tales, Ossianic verse. Manuscript, ca. 1603?
  • FACSIMILE from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Church of England Leabhar na nUrnaightheadh gComhchoidchiond. Dublin: Sheon Francke, 1608.
  • Ben Jonson. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Will Stansby, 1616. STC 14751; displayed p. 1000–1001
  • Historical extracts. Manuscript, ca. 1625. X.d.393; displayed p. 23v–24

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  • English School, after Daniel Mytens. Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Not before 1620. Folger Shakespeare Library. FPb55;

Flight(s) of the Earls to the Continent and England (case 10)

Items included

  • Maurice O'Fihely. Enchyridion Fidei. Venice: Boneto Locatelli, 1509. 159- 114q; displayed sig. A3r
  • Richard Stanyhurst. De Vita S. Patricii. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1587. BX4700.P3 S8 1587 Cage; displayed title page
  • Phillip O’Sullivan Beare. Historiae Catholicae Iberniae compendium. Lisbon: Petro Crasbecckio, 1621. DA910.O7 Cage; displayed p. 14
  • FACSIMILE from University College, Dublin. Tadhg Ó Cianáin. Diary of the Flight of Earls. Manuscript, ca. 1609.
  • FACSIMILE from Hiram Morgan. Hugh O’Neill (back row, far left) in Rome. Detail from an Italian fresco (16th century).
  • Thomas Carve. Itinerarium. London: Nicholas Heyll, 1639. D915.C29 1639 Cage; displayed sig. (6)

The Ulster Plantation (case 11)

Items included

  • FACSIMILE from Lambeth Palace Library. Carew Manuscript. Gaelic Pedigree.
  • Sir John Davies. Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was Never Entirely Subdued. London: William Jaggard, 1612. STC 6348; displayed title page
  • William Shakespeare. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies London: Isaac Iaggard & Ed. Blount, 1623. STC 22237 fo. 1 no. 75; displayed first page of The Tempest
  • LOAN from Bienecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Thomas Blenerhasset. A Direction for the Plantation in Ulster. London: Edward Allde, 1610.

Pilaster after Case 11

Pedigree of the Taylor family, Shadoxhurst, Kent. Manuscript, 1665. Z.e.41

Land and Law: The New Nobility (case 12)

Items included

  • FACSIMILE from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Boyle’s funerary monument.
  • FACSIMILE from the National Library of Ireland. Thomond Pedigree. Manuscript, 16th century.
  • Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica. Dublin: David Hay, 1772. DA905.L8 Cage; displayed p. 196
  • John Cusack (17th century). Ireland’s Comfort. Manuscript, 1629? G.a.10; displayed p. 175
  • FACSIMILE from Lambeth Palace Library. Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh’s pedigree of Randall MacDonnell, a Scotsman made Viscount Dunluce in the Irish peerage.

Vitrine after Case 12

  • Edmund Tilney. Topographical descriptions, regiments, and policies. Manuscript, c.1597 – c.1601. V.b.182; displayed p. 342–343

Stuart Dublin (case 13)

Items included

  • Edmund Spenser. A View of the [Present] State of Ireland in Edmund Campion’s Two Histories of Ireland. Dublin: Society of Stationers, 1633. STC 25067a copy 2; displayed title page
  • FACSIMILE from Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library. Sir Anthony van Dyck. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Oil on canvas, 17th century.
  • Sir James Ware. De Scriptoribus Hiberniæ. Dublin: Society of Booksellers, 1639. STC 25066 copy 2; displayed A3
  • James Shirley.The Royall Master. London: Thomas Cotes, 1638. STC 22454a copy 2; displayed title page
  • James Shirley.St. Patrick for Ireland. London: J. Raworth, 1640. STC 22455 copy 1; displayed title page
  • LOAN from Rolf and Magda Lorber. Sir Philip Sidney. The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia. Dublin: Society of Stationers, 1621.

Irish London (case 14)

Items included

  • James Ussher. A Discourse of the Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and Brittish London: Robert Young, 1631. STC 24549 copy 1; displayed title page
  • James Butler, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Articles of Peace, Made and Concluded with the Irish Rebels, and Papists. Including “Observations” attributed to John Milton. London: Matthew Simmons, 1649. A3863; displayed title page
  • Wenceslaus Hollar. The True Maner of the Execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford. London, between 1641 and 1677. ART 264809 (size S) /
  • John Ford. The Chronicle Historie of Perkin Warbeck. London: Thomas Purfoot, 1634. STC 11157; displayed title page
  • Owen Felltham. Resolves: Divine, Morall, Politicall. London: Anne Seile, 1661. F655; displayed A1r
  • FACSIMILE from His Grace the Duke of Bedford and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates. Circle of Peter Lely. Margaret Russell with her niece Lady Diana. 17th century.
  • FACSIMILE from the Royal Irish Academy. Mícheál Ó Longáin, scribe. Copy of poem to Meg Russell. Manuscript, 18th century. Shelf Mark MS 23 G 20.
  • Henry Peacham. Minerva Britanna, or, A Garden of Heroical Devises. London: Wa. Dight, 1612. STC 19511 copy 1; displayed H3/p. 45
  • James Howell. Mercurius Hibernicus. Bristol, 1644.