Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

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.

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

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors Preface 'Firm Catholics' or 'Loyal Subjects'? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-Century Ireland; A.Ford Thomas Sheridan: Toleration and Royalism; V.Geoghegan The Political Ideas of Anglican Ireland in the 1690s; R.Eccleshall The Road to Wood's Halfpence and Beyond: William King, Jonathan Swift, and the Defence of the National Church, 1689-1724; D.G.Boyce Public and Political Opinion in Ireland and the Idea of an Anglo-Irish Union, 1650-1800; J.Kelly Ideas of Union in Anglo-Irish Political Discourse, 1692-1720: Meaning and Use; D.Hayton Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, c.1688-1733; A.McBride The Languages of Politeness and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; T.Barnard Politics and the Writing of History: The Impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish Historiography; J.Hill Republicans Before the United Irishmen: The Case of Dr Charles Lucas; J.Smyth Volunteer Thought: William Crawford of Strabane; N.Vance 'A Perfect Liberty': The Rise and Fall of the Irish Whigs 1789-97; N.J.Curtin Index