Edmund Borlase, author of The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England (1675), claimed that Richard Boyle’s death was caused by the conclusion of the first cessation of arms in September 1643 during the wars of the Three Kingdoms. Both Charles I and the Confederate Catholics of Ireland agreed to a one-year ceasefire between the Irish Catholic ‘rebel’ and royalist forces in Ireland, much to the horror of many Irish Protestants and English parliamentarians. Boyle, according to Borlase, was thus ‘unwilling to survive what he suspected might not be auspicious to the English’ and died (Borlase, p. 209). To his contemporaries, Boyle symbolised the ‘Protestant Interest’ and illustrated the transformative potential of English colonialism in Ireland, having arrived with less than £28 in his pocket and gone on to become earl of Cork and one of Ireland’s richest landowners. Thus, The Colonial World of Richard Boyle, edited by David Edwards and Colin Rynne, aims to unpack the mythology surrounding Boyle and to understand what type of colonialism he practised.

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书评：科克伯爵的理查德·博伊尔的殖民世界

埃德蒙·博拉塞（Edmund Borlase），《爱尔兰沦为英格兰王冠》的作者（1675）声称理查德·博伊尔（Richard Boyle）的死是由于三国战争期间1643年9月第一次停止使用武器而造成的。查尔斯一世和爱尔兰同盟天主教徒都同意在爱尔兰的爱尔兰天主教“反叛者”和保皇派部队之间达成为期一年的停火协议，这使许多爱尔兰新教徒和英国议员感到震惊。因此，根据波列斯（Borlase）的观点，博伊尔“不愿生存，因为他怀疑这对英国人来说不是吉祥的”并死了（Borlase，第209页）。对他的同时代人来说，博伊尔象征着“新教徒的利益”，并说明了英国殖民主义在爱尔兰的变革潜力，当时他口袋里的钱不到28英镑，后来成为科克伯爵和爱尔兰最富有的地主之一。因此，理查德·博伊尔（Richard Boyle）的殖民世界，由戴维·爱德华兹（David Edwards）和科林·林恩（Colin Rynne）编辑，旨在解开围绕博伊尔的神话，并了解他实行了哪种类型的殖民主义。