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1、PublishedbytheCorcoranDepartmentofHistoryattheUniversity,英语其它论文CatastrophicDimensions:TheRuptureofEnglishandIrishIdentitiesinEarlyModernIreland,1534-1615D.W.CunnaneCatastrophicDimensionsThisessay'sintentistoassesstherelationshipbetweentheanti-CatholiclegislationpassedbytheIrishparliame

2、ntof1613-1615andtheemergenceofadistinctnationalidentityinearlymodernIreland.Foralmostfourcenturies,theroyaladministrationinIrelandhaddistinguishedbetweentheGaelicIrishpopulationsinthehinterlandsofLeinster,Munster,Connacht,andUlster,andtheEnglishpopulationinthePale,thatrelativelyurbaniz

3、edsettlementcenteredonDublin,andintheoutlyingtownsandearldomsofLeinsterandMunster.Theparliamentof1613-1615gavelegalforcetoanew,equallyimpermeablecleavagebetweenthetwocomponentsoftheAnglo-Irish(1)colonialcommunity:theOldandNewEnglish.TheNewEnglishwererecentProtestanttransplants,sentfrom

4、EnglandbythecrownduringthesixteenthcenturytooperatetheIrishgovernment.TheCatholicOldEnglishwerenativesofIreland.Descendantsoftheoriginaltwelfth-centuryAnglo-Normanconquerors,theOldEnglishsharedanAnglo-Irishheritageandthecommoninterestsshapedbythatheritage.(2)Bysecuringtherigorousenforc

5、ementoftheOathofSupremacy,theimplementationofrevenue-generatingrecusancyfines,theexpulsionofallJesuitsandseminarypriestsfromIreland,andtheconfiscationofCatholiclandsduringtheparliamentof1613-1615,theNewEnglishgovernmentsystematicallyexcludedtheCatholicOldEnglishfrompoliticalandsocialin

6、fluenceonthegroundsofreligion.(3)TheinterpretationoftheIrishgovernment'sshiftfromracialtoreligiousdiscriminationraisesprofoundhistoriographicalquestions,fortheattempttolocatethisshiftinaframeworkofcauseandeffectrequiresthehistoriantoconfronttheproblematicconceptofIrishnationalism.Thist

7、askhasprovokedsignificantdebateamonghistoriansofearlymodernIreland.R.F.FosterhasinterpretedtheIrishgovernment'snewemphasisonreligiousdiscriminationasaprimarycauseoftheemergenceofadistinctOldEnglishidentityinseventeenth-centuryIreland.Theanti-Catholicthrustofthe1613-1615parliament,Fos