David Dickson. _Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830_.
History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Series. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2005. xvii + 726 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables,
notes, appendices, bibliography. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-299-21180-0.
Reviewed for [EMAIL PROTECTED] by James G. Patterson, Department
of History, Centenary College.
David Dickson's _Old World Colony_ is a masterful
account of the socio-economic and political
evolution of the south Munster region, defined by
the author as Counties Cork, Kerry and the
western half of Waterford, over a
two-hundred-year period. The era in question is
a very long eighteenth century beginning with the
first Elizabethan efforts to plant "New English"
Protestants in the region in the 1580s and
continuing to the eve of the Great Famine.
This looks like a _very_ good book. But to an Nth generation
Irish-American like myself, the big picture that it presents looks
like old news. It's the details that are new.
--
Jim Devine / "I wanna be with you in paradise / And it seems so unfair
/ I can't go to paradise no more / I killed a man back there." -- Bob
Dylan.
