
Dr Henry Jones' Account of the 1641 Rising
Plantation and War in County Cavan
Brendan Scott(Editor)
Ulster Historical Foundation (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-913993-09-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1641, Dr Henry Jones was dean of the Church of Ireland diocese of Kilmore. His life, and those of many other British settlers in the Ulster Plantation, fell into disarray when the rising began in October of that year.
Jones managed to escape Cavan and established and chaired the 1641 Commission, responsible for taking around 8000 depositions or witness statements relating to the rising.
Jones also wrote a number of pamphlets about the rising, including this new edition of his description of the events in Cavan between October 1641 and June 1642, entitled A relation of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion in the county of Cavan. This fully annotated edition of the pamphlet comes with an extensive introduction which details County Cavan in the early seventeenth century, Jones' background and his account of the rising there while also rescuing from obscurity an important companion piece to the 1641 depositions which affords the reader a unique insight into this chaotic period of Irish history.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Belfast
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
175 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913993-09-2 (9781913993092)
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