This assignment will focus on printed propaganda and the role, impact and consequence it had during the outbreak and continuation of the conflict of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Two primary sources will be analysed and discussed. The first source chosen is print from The Teares of Ireland 1642 Figure 10.8 and the second is document 3.14 from the Anthology. Primary and secondary sources will be used to provide evidence and context on the impact on religion, government and monarchy in England, Scotland and Ireland. Before analysing the first source it is worth remembering that in 1640 the censorship of the press lapsed allowing multiple forms of media to be printed without a censor (Laurence & Gibbons, 2011, p.68). Propaganda generated as a result of the lack of censorship set about a chain of events that alienated and influenced people in several ways. The lapse allowed multiple published pieces of propagandist material to be found in the Three Kingdoms. It is also worth remembering what propaganda means ‘Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view’ (Oxford English Dictionary, 2014), The first source Figure 10.8 is a print from The Teares of Ireland in 1642 which is split into two illustrated sections. The upper section of the print depicts the desecration of a women and her unborn baby which is subsequently shown to be sacrificed in the fire. The lower section shows Catholics driving the Protestants into the mountains. The phrase “now are ye wilde Irisch as well as wee.” from Figure 10.8 lends to the idea that Protestants viewed Irish Catholics as wild, savage and unruly. Catholics would have viewed this as Protestants creating lies and deceit to turn people a... ... middle of paper ... ...upport for a cause and to influence opinions. This resulted in the split of families, communities, counties, countries resulting in the execution of Charles I. Propaganda impacted the Three Kingdoms decisively due to de-censorship of printed materials. Used to influence and destabilise religion, government and the monarchy; printed material was available in each of the Three Kingdoms and the context of the material produced would endure into the seventeenth and eighteenth century (Laurence & Gibbons, 2011, p.57). Ireland today is still split with regular clashes occurring between loyalist Protestants and republican Catholics. To summarise, three key events occurred during the War of the Three Kingdoms caused due to printed propaganda; the downfall of the monarchy, the rise of the Commonwealth and the re-establishment of the monarchy bound by the law of the country.
Document 4 says, “The curse of the Popery, with its degrading idolatry and corrupting priesthood, is the root of Irelands misery.” The English Presbyterian that states this represents what the English people thought of the Irish. The Irish were not as developed as the English and the English did go in and industrialize in certain areas such as Ulster and parts of Dublin. Even though Ireland did gain wealth as Document 5 states, most of the money stayed within the Protestant population that came from England and Scotland. Document 5 blames it on the Irish character and the in general stupidity of the Irish people. The English also felt that if the Irish were given “Home Rule” then they would persecute against the Protestants in the north. Document 7 says that the worst people of Ireland (Catholics) will be under control of the best people of Ireland (Protestants). Eventually this was resolved when Ulster stayed a part of the United Kingdom. The Irish Catholics partially got
In conclusion, though I have shown support for the religion theory most of all in this paper, I do believe that it was not one aspect that set this craze off. Many different theories overlapped to form this tragic and lengthy period of England’s history. Obviously, from the notes we’ve taken in this class, we realize that religion did and always will play a major role in England, or any other country for that matter. Perhaps from this spectacle of unnecessary death, we can learn that any institution, given too much power can, even unwillingly, prove dangerous.
The Independent (2010). Power to the pictures: The evolution of propaganda. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/power-to-the-pictures-the-evolution-of-propaganda-2075321.html [Accessed: 11 Nov 2013].
Hartmann, John: The Use of Propaganda in the Reformation & Counter – Reformation. Yale Divinity School. Available: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jahartmann/images/Propaganda_in_the_Reformation.pdf
Hatch tells the reader that the religious communication changed in only two ways in the years following the American Revolution. The first way in which religious communication was that “clergy men lost their unrivaled position as authoritative sources of information (Hatch 125).” The second way in which the religious communication changed “was an explosion of popular printed material (Hatch 125).” This explosion of printed word changed Protestant Christianity. Exploiting of the press many pamphlets, tracts, books, songs and newspapers were published in order to extend the reach of Christianity and to battle other religions and naysayers. But even men of proper learning and character found it difficult to infuse elitist communication and gospel for the common man (Hatch 128). Elias Smith contented, “and all Christians have a right to propagate it, I do also declare, that every Christian has a r...
This essay has discussed the role that propaganda had in shaping public opinion during the Great War in great detail. It has done so by discussing the use of propaganda in the Entente as well as in the Alliance. The essay essay then went on to give a view point on who was more successful in utilising propaganda during World War One. One thing is certain the great war changed how propaganda was utilised forever.
Propaganda has long been used as a tool to defend institutions and organizations. It was used during World War One and World War Two to placate the masses and to protect the governments at the time. Simply put, propaganda is a tool used by the intelligent to ma...
In The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, renowned scholar Eamonn Duffy investigates the English Reformation. Duffy pears through the eyes of the priest of a small, remote village in Southwestern England. Using Sir Christopher Trichay’s records of the parish, Duffy illustrates an image of Reformation opposite of what is predominantly assumed. Duffy argues the transformation that took place between 1530 and 1570, through the transition of four monarchs, was much more gradual that many interpret. Even though state mandate religious change affected the community of Morebath, the change did not ensue the violence that is often construed with the Reformation. Sir Christopher Trichay’s leadership and his portrayal of community life, the development and removal of St. Sidwell, and the participation in the church through stores develop Duffy’s argument of appeasement rather than violence during the English Reformation.
Pamphlets were perfectly suited for the colonial region, and created an explosion within political ideologies. Often, popular letters were exchanged in a very similar manner, and some were even published in pamphlet form. The popular media published pamphlets that often resembled public conversations with a bantering back and forth between a writer and his audience. This paper will analyze supporting evidence, which clearly indicates the gradual pressure changing ideologies placed on Colonial America which ultimately emerged as revolution. It will demonstrate how these ideologies grew through pamphleteering, and how pamphlets became one of the leading causes of the American Revolution.
Literature is the most conclusive way to gauge the past: peoples are laid low, the grandest of monuments will crumble but literature preserves the unblemished mindset of a people long since gone. But even then literature can be lost: their houses are burned or pillaged, their pages decay and language changes. It is often a sad fate that we are left with only a few remaining pieces of a past era, the only works preserved through the ages, those translated and passed down. It is our duty then to decipher these to make out the minds of our ancestors. Such is the condition of British literature. We look at the composite piece and see works such as the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 A.D.), The Dream of Rood (anonymous author, unknown date), Beowulf (ca. 750 A.D.), and The History of the Kings of Britain (ca. 1135-38 A.D.). Now these, of course are only a part of the entirety of early English literature, for an example it will perform masterfully in examining the progression of English religious tendencies.
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English persecution of the Irish people is one cause of the tensions in Northern Ireland. Before 1793 Irish Catholics were persecuted by British law. Catholics were not allowed to buy and sell land, get proper education, marry Protestants or vote. This fueled problems in Ireland. After 1793 Britain was afraid, after loosing America, that a revolution would happen in Ireland. So the restrictions on the Irish Catholics were done away with. This however angered the protestants who formed the Orange Order, who was against the Catholics. This all came to a head when in 1798 when a small rebellion broke out.
Hollander, John, and Frank Kermode. The Literature of Renaissance England. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.
Despite the oppressive nature of the Protestant Ascendancy, no rebellion took place in Ireland for more than a century after Williamite War. Ireland was in absolute tranquil mainly because Irish Catholic simply do not have the will to rebel against their protestant overlord again. The bloody defeat of the Jacobites, pro-James III Irish-Catholic dissenter, in Williamite War took a heavy toll on Ireland Catholic population both morally and economically.
Donne, John. "The Canonization." The Literature of Renaissance England. Ed. John Hollander and Frank Kermode. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. 526-27.