The Irish to the Rescue
The Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementinas Escape
- 192 pages
- English
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About this book
In May 1719, the rescue and escape of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska from her detention in Innsbruck was celebrated throughout Catholic Europe. It was a feat of painstaking planning, daring execution, and steel-nerved improvisation. Masterminded by Kildareman Charles Wogan, he and his Irish and French companions influenced the course of international relations, shocking King George I's government in London, and providing a much-needed boon to the followers of the exiled Stuart claimant, James Stuart III.
This unique collection of essays does not merely recount the factual story of Maria Clementina's rescue and subsequent marriage, it provides for the first time in any publication an authoritative analysis of its political and cultural significance and the full historical context in which the event took place. A full image of Europe at the time of the rescue is sketched out, including such topics as the question of the Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century; the illustrious Sobieski family and their origins; a short account of the rescue itself; the fate of Charles Wogan and
his followers after the rescue; the Habsburg-Hanoverian alliance and its context; the marriage of James Stuart III and Maria Clementina Sobieska; details of the collection of Stuart artefacts housed at Trinity College Dublin; and contemporary musical compositions which were written and dedicated to Maria Clementina.
This book is a follow-on publication from a public seminar titled The Irish the Rescue: The Tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina's Escape. The seminar was held at Europe House in Dublin on 30th April 2019.
The seminar and the publication of its proceedings have been generously sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland and the Embassy of France in Ireland.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Polish Ambassador’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Mary Ann Lyons)
- Irish Jacobite military exiles in Europe, 1691–1748 (Éamonn Ó Ciardha)
- The Sobieskis: A Polish royal family in the history of Europe (Jarosław Pietrzak)
- The Rescue and Escape of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (Richard K. Maher)
- Service and Exile: Sir Charles Wogan, 1715–1719 (Richard K. Maher)
- The Habsburg-Hanoverian Alliance and Its perspective on the Stuart-Sobieska match (Declan M. Downey)
- Clementina Sobieska at the Jacobite Court (Edward Corp)
- Political Allusions in Music Dedicated to James Stuart and Maria Clementina in 1719 (Aneta Markuszewska)
- Princess Clementina’s Marriage Certificate and Other Jacobite Relics in the Library of Trinity College Dublin (Estelle Gittins)
- Contributors
- Index