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Vindicating Ireland: Historical Memory, Irish America, and Mathew Carey’s Later Histories of Ireland

Reflecting on his career achievements in his 1834 autobiography, Mathew Carey counted the publication of his 1819 history of seventeenthcentury Ireland, The Vindiciae Hibernicae, or Ireland Vindicated, “among the most important operations” of his life. Indeed, he deemed the work and its subject so important that he devoted nearly one-fifth of his autobiography to it. The correction of popular misunderstanding regarding Irish history was a lifelong quest for Carey, and as such, it represents a persistent theme in both his Irish and his American writings. It was a subject that he had first addressed in a pamphlet written during his early career as a Dublin printer entitled The Urgent Necessity of an Immediate Repeal of the Whole Penal Code Candidly Considered (1781). Years of research, revision, and argument culminated in the publication of the Vindiciae Hibernicae, a lengthy refutation of misinformation spread by generations of Protestant pamphleteers regarding Catholic culpability for atrocities committed during the 1641 Irish Rebellion. Carey hoped that the work would challenge and perhaps overturn the foundation myth underlying the Irish state’s subjugation of Catholics. Sadly for Carey, the audience to which the Vindiciae Hibernicae was primarily directed did not have the opportunity to read it. Following the first American edition Carey was unable to secure a European publisher, a fact that he lamented in his autobiography: “I confidently expected that the work would be reprinted in England and Ireland,