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Search - Ulster's Office 1552-1800; A History of the Irish Office of Arms from the Tudor Plantations to the Act of Union

Ulster's Office 15521800 A History of the Irish Office of Arms from the Tudor Plantations to the Act of Union
Author: MacCarthy Mor

A History of the Irish Office of Arms from the Tudor Plantations to the Act of Union - The most important work on this subject yet to be released. - From the foreword ... "A masterly work . . . critical, dispassionate, factual . . . a book of inestimable value . . ." From the author's introduction ... "Despite the fact that Ulster's Office, now ... more »merged with that of Norroy King of Arms, represents one of the few Irish institutions possessing substantial and important archival material relevant to the social and political history of Ireland nothing approaching a comprehensive administrative history of it has ever been attempted. At best, a few pages, randomly dispersed in general histories of the English College of Arms, have made passing references to Ulster's Office's existence, but, with one exception, there has been no concerted attempt to described or categorize its extensive archives or to identify it as an outstanding repository of primary information relevant to the history of Irish society from the sixteenth century onwards. "In addition to presenting a thematic history of Ulster's Office from its foundation in 1552 until the Act of Union in 1800, following which there was little development in its duties or procedures, it is my intention to demonstrate that, being originally no more than an artificial extension of the English College of Arms in Ireland, Ulster's Office never developed any local or national characteristics such as mechanisms for the recognition of Gaelic Chiefly titles, unlike the indigenous Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland. Ulster's Office was not established in response to any real local need or demand but as a deliberate political act of the Edwardian administration in pursuit of its policy of extending the English Crown's authority in Ireland through the policy of "Surrender and Regrant." It is true that the Office was created almost a decade after Henry VIII's assumption of the novel title "King of Ireland" but, nevertheless, it was this act more than any other which dictated the necessity of establishing an heraldic authority in a "kingdom" that was more of a political theory than an administrative reality. "Perhaps the most striking success of the Office was that it survived at all through so many wars and revolutions. That it was finally accepted, albeit reluctantly, as the sole arbitrator on all matters relating to heraldry and genealogy by the Irish nobility, resident and émigré, was the reward for such tenacity."

ISBN-13: 9780965422000
ISBN-10: 0965422003
Publication Date: 12/1/1996
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Gryfons Publishers & Distributors
Book Type: Library Binding
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