Improvement and nationhood

Essays in Irish history, c.1730–c.1850 presented to James Kelly

David Hayton and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh

David Hayton (QUB)
Electing and being elected in early Hanoverian Ireland

Andrew Sneddon (UU)
Confessionalism and toleration in eighteenth century Ireland

Anthony Malcomson
‘Edifying’ Irish bishops of the eighteenth century and their contribution to domestic architecture

Brendan Twomey (TCD) 
Debtor imprisonment in eighteenth century Ireland

Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (DCU)
Irish catechisms and their use in eighteenth-century Ireland

Martyn J. Powell (University of Bristol)
Military rioting in late eighteenth-century Dublin

Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford)
The Irish ‘national tale’ before 1801

David Dickson (TCD)
Drogheda in the 1790s

Alison Fitzgerald (Maynooth University) Banking on Bonaparte: making a show of Napoleon in Georgian Dublin

Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (Maynooth University)
Cortland Macgregor Skinner and the struggle for order: an American loyalist in post-Union Ulster

Bernadette Cunningham (RIA)
Assembling the Royal Irish Academy’s Hodges and Smith collection of Irish manuscripts, 1828–44

Peter Gray (QUB)
The origins of Irish federalism, 1830–44

Sean Connolly (QUB)
The politics of urban improvement: the Belfast improvement acts 1845–50

Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (DCU)
A bibliography of the historical writings of James Kelly