Death, burial, and commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650

Annotation. This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife. It further considers ways in which the living fashioned ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own ends. It will be of interest to those concerned with Irish history and death studies generally "This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. The author brings together a wide variety of source material to explore how people coped with and viewed the deaths of friends and foes. The book deals with the process of dying; the conduct of funerals; the arrangement of burials, and their rearrangement through disinterment; private and public commemoration of the dead; and ideas about the afterlife. It considers how the living manipulated ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own political and religious ends and the insights this can offer into the interactions between and within Ireland's different communities in a time of rapid change. This scholarly and accessible work will be indispensable reading for all those interested in the history and archaeology of Ireland, as well as those more broadly concerned with death studies."--BOOK JACKET. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-6 Dying Well: Experiences of Death....Pages 7-29 From Death to Burial....Pages 30-58 Burial Location and Society....Pages 59-84 The Politics of Disinterment....Pages 85-96 The Nature and Uses of Funerary Monuments....Pages 97-112 Funerary Monuments and Society: Family, Honour and Death....Pages 113-134 Afterlives....Pages 135-155 Conclusion....Pages 156-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-229

This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife. It further considers ways in which the living fashioned ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own ends.

Ann Munro died on 3 March 1648, aged twenty-five.