Description
Book SynopsisThis is the story of La Coruña ,which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, women, children, elderly and poor following the Battle of Kinsale. -- .
Trade Review‘The present book is a valuable regional study of Irish immigration to the Iberianpeninsula; in its broad social range and the attention given to kinship, itbrings the role of women and families into focus; it is a welcome contributionto the expanding literature on Irish migration in the early modern period.’
BrianMac Cuarta SJ, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Irish Economic and SocialHistory 44 (1)
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Irish-Spanish Relations (1580–1608)
1. The Irish and Spanish socio-political contexts
2. Irish emigration to Galicia
Part II: The Community in La Coruña
3. Kinship and family structures
4. Literacy, language, and material culture
5. Religosity and religious sentiment
Part III: Accessing Patronage at the Spanish court
6. The Spanish Court, networks and political control
7. Nobility and blood purity
8. The crisis of the ‘Spanish Irishry’
Part IV: Acculturation, Assimilation, and Identity Formation
9. Networks, acculturation and identity formation
10. Moriscos, Sephardic Jews, and the Irish in France
Conclusion
Index
