The World of Thomas Ward: Sex and Scandal in Late Seventeenth-Century Co. Antrim: Volume 124

by Eamon Darcy

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming "this is the basest wine I have ever tasted"? Such issues were hot topics of conversation in east Ulster in the 1690s. Despite the Williamite triumph after the wars of 1689-91 and the seeming deliverance of Irish Protestants from Catholic tyranny, the Church...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846826098
• ISBN13: 9781846826092
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.3"