Ourselves Alone?

Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland

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The period between the Williamite war and the act of union saw different groups in Irish society forced to reassess their ideas of political and national identity,...
Author/Editor: S.J. Connolly, editor

The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship

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Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved constitutional framework of the...
Author/Editor: Douglas Kanter

Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century

Essays for Toby Barnard

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In this book, thirteen distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocracy and the tenantry...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie & R.F. Foster, editors

John Foster (1740–1828)

The politics of improvement and prosperity

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John Foster was the last (1785–1800) speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the most important opponent of the Act of Union which extinguished both his...
Author/Editor: Anthony Malcomson