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A History Of Monaghan For Two Hundred Years: 1660-1860 by Denis Carolan Rushe (1852-1928) was published in 1921 by William Tempest Publishers, Dundalk. It covers the history of County Monaghan from the Restoration to just after the Famine ( and follows on from the author's earlier volume covering the century before this book)
Monaghan had been largely the domain of the Gaelic MacMahons and other clans until the conquest of Ireland during the reign of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs and Oliver Cromwell. Most of the lands in Monaghan were taken from the native Irish families and granted to Protestant planters, with varying degrees of success.
With the rise of the Protestant Ascendancy after the Wars of the 17th century, many Catholics were reduced by the penal laws to the status of tenant farmers and landless peasants. Among the most important Anglo-Irish Protestant families in Monaghan were the Dawson, Westerna, Forster, Shirley and Leslie dynasties.
( Shane Leslie contributes an introduction to this book)
From the late 17th century until the late 19th century, Catholics in Monaghan were discriminated against religiously, politically and economically. The Penal Laws implemented soon after the Williamite victory did not begin to be repealed until the late 18th century. In 1829 Catholic Emancipation was achieved and Catholics in Monaghan were no longer excluded from the political process. However in the 1840s the Famine ravaged the poor of County Monaghan, as elsewhere, with thousands dying from hunger and disease while thousands more emigrated to America and elsewhere.
There is also a large section of advertisements at the rear, with many for companies from Monaghan as well as some from Dundalk.
Solid in green cloth covered boards, a smaller format hardcover, titles in gold to spine. Internally unm,arked, apart from some foxing ( moderate to heavy on some pages) internally. Illustrated.
Denis Carolan Rushe was born in Monaghan in 1852, educated at St. Louis Convent, MacCartans' seminary and later Trinity College Dublin before becoming a solicitor in 1878. He served in a variety of roles such as president of the Monaghan conference of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, Secretary of the Fermanagh Board of Education and Secretary to Monaghan County Council from 1899 to 1924. He was also a supporter of the Gaelic League and a local historian. He died in 1928.
