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Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

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Editors:
  1. D. George Boyce

    1. University of Wales, Swansea, UK

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  2. Robert Eccleshall

    1. School of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

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  3. Vincent Geoghegan

    1. School of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. ‘Firm Catholics’ or ‘Loyal Subjects’? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-century Ireland

    • Alan Ford
    Pages 1-31

  3. Thomas Sheridan: Toleration and Royalism

    • Vincent Geoghegan
    Pages 32-61

  4. The Political Ideas of Anglican Ireland in the 1690s

    • Robert Eccleshall
    Pages 62-80

  5. The Road to Wood’s Halfpence and Beyond: William King, Jonathan Swift and the Defence of the National Church, 1689–1724

    • D. George Boyce
    Pages 81-109

  6. Public and Political Opinion in Ireland and the Idea of an Anglo-Irish Union, 1650–1800

    • James Kelly
    Pages 110-141

  7. Ideas of Union in Anglo-Irish Political Discourse, 1692–1720: Meaning and Use

    • David Hayton
    Pages 142-168

  8. Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, c. 1688–1733

    • Ian McBride
    Pages 169-192

  9. The Languages of Politeness and Sociability in Eighteenth-century Ireland

    • Toby Barnard
    Pages 193-221

  10. Politics and the Writing of History: The Impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish Historiography

    • Jacqueline Hill
    Pages 222-239

  11. Republicanism before the United Irishmen: The Case of Dr Charles Lucas

    • Jim Smyth
    Pages 240-256

  12. Volunteer Thought: William Crawford of Strabane

    • Norman Vance
    Pages 257-269

  13. ‘A Perfect Liberty’: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Whigs, 1789–97

    • Nancy J. Curtin
    Pages 270-289

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 290-309
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About this book

This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It moves from the political, religious and military turmoil of the seventeenth century, through the years of the protestant ascendancy, to the revolutionary events at the end of the eighteenth century. The book addresses the basic conflicts of the age. In the case of religious politics it examines the hopes, anxieties, and interactions of Anglicans, Catholics and Presbyterians. It investigates the great political issues of the day - the constitutional thinkers and politicians involved in these struggles. Light is thrown on the great and the good - Swift and Molyneux, Grattan and Lucas - as well as on a huge cast of forgotten or never known figures, be they royal officials, lawyers, clergymen, landowners, or popular writers. A whole world of vibrant political debate is exposed.

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'This volume is, in short, a collection of valuable contributions by a group of scholars individually at work...' - Ciaran Brady, Albion

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    D. George Boyce

  • School of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

    Robert Eccleshall, Vincent Geoghegan

About the editors

TOBY BARNARD Hertford College, Oxford NANCY CURTIN Department of History, University of Fordham, New York ALAN FORD Department of Theology, University of Nottingham DAVID HAYTON School of Modern History, Queen's University, Belfast JACQUELINE HILL Department of History, St Patrick's College, Maynooth JAMES KELLY St Patrick's College, Drumconda, Dublin IAN MCBRIDE Department of History, King's College, London JIM SMYTH Department of History, University of Notre Dame, Indiana NORMAN VANCE School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

  • Editors: D. George Boyce, Robert Eccleshall, Vincent Geoghegan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932723

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71261-0Published: 17 May 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40293-9Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-3272-3Published: 17 May 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 309

  • Topics: European History, Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, Political Science, Modern History

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