Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd

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Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early eighteenth century and...
Author/Editor: James Kelly

Ulster liberalism, 1778–1876

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Beginning in 1778, Volunteers such as William Bruce and William Drennan gathered, often in uniform, to discuss a constitutional crisis in Ireland in terms of classical models and...
Author/Editor: Gerald Hall

The life and times of Arthur Browne in Ireland and America, 1756–1805

Civil law and civil liberties

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Born in Rhode Island, Arthur Browne was a lawyer, a scholar, and a politician in the Ireland of the late eighteenth century and established a brilliant reputation...
Author/Editor: Joseph C. Sweeney

The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

Ireland, religion and reform

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When Richard Whately (1787–1863) was appointed as Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831, his liberalism made him a highly controversial figure within his own church....
Author/Editor: Ciara Boylan

The Church of Ireland and its past

history, interpretation and identity

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This book brings together leading Irish historians who examine how the history of the Church of Ireland has been written in the 500 years since the Reformation....
Author/Editor: Mark Empey, Alan Ford & Miriam Moffitt, editors