Micheal O Siochru's study examines the Irish Catholic Confederation as a governing body, from the embryonic institutions it built at Kilkenny in 1642 through the internal constitutional and religious disputes that split it and the Second Ormond Peace of 1649. O Siochru gives particular weight to the moderate faction led by Nicholas Plunkett, consistently willing to trade religious toleration for political accommodation with the Protestant royalist Duke of Ormond, against the clerical hardline faction around the papal nuncio Rinuccini that demanded full public restoration of the Catholic Church as a condition of any peace. Irish Historical Studies judged it likely to remain the standard authority on confederate governance, and it remains the standard reference for the Confederation's own internal politics.
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Reliability TierA university-press constitutional and political history by a Trinity College Dublin historian of seventeenth century Ireland, reviewed as the likely standard authority on confederate governance for years to come; the standard citation for the Confederation's own internal religious and political disputes. Sources
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