Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

D. G. Boyce, R. Eccleshall, V. Geoghegan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780333712610
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403932723
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Britische Geschichte

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 ‘Firm Catholics’ or ‘Loyal Subjects’? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-century Ireland1
• 2 Thomas Sheridan: Toleration and Royalism
• 3 The Political Ideas of Anglican Ireland in the 1690s
• 4 The Road to Wood’s Halfpence and Beyond: William King, Jonathan Swift and the Defence of the National Church, 1689–1724
• 5 Public and Political Opinion in Ireland and the Idea of an Anglo-Irish Union, 1650–1800
• 6 Ideas of Union in Anglo-Irish Political Discourse, 1692–1720: Meaning and Use
• 7 Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, c. 1688–1733
• 8 The Languages of Politeness and Sociability in Eighteenth-century Ireland
• 9 Politics and the Writing of History: The Impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish Historiography
• 10 Republicanism before the United Irishmen: The Case of Dr Charles Lucas
• 11 Volunteer Thought: William Crawford of Strabane
• 12 ‘A Perfect Liberty’: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Whigs, 1789–97
• Index