Politics and Political Culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline Hill

Mary Ann Lyons, James Kelly, Raymond Gillespie

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781801510608
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of political power through institutions such as the vice regal court, parliament or the law. The essays in this volume take an organic approach to the way in which power is made manifest and distributed across the social world, considering such diverse themes as the role of political life in identity formation and maintenance, civic unity and the problem of urban poverty in Dublin, the role of money in the exercise of authority by Dublin Corporation, public ritual and ceremony in political culture, rumour and rancour in provincial Ireland, the public and the growth of Dublin city, and the Belfast/Bordeaux merchant, John Black III's vision of Belfast society in the era of improvement. By focusing on the idea of political cultures and how they intersected with more formal political structures, these essays reveal new and unexpected disjunctions that contemporaries were well aware of, and carefully managed, but which have been marginalized by historians. This volume resituates power where it was exercised on a daily basis and in doing so opens fascinating windows into past worlds in pre-modern Ireland.

Table of contents

• Frontispiece
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Jacqueline R. Hill and the study of history in Ireland: a career of dedication and achievement
• Introduction: Dublin and beyond
• ‘The receiver-general is not in cash to pay …’: the financial travails of Dublin Corporation, 1690–1760– causes, actions and political impact
• The politics of pageantry: the participation of Dublin guilds in public-facing ceremonial and celebratory events, 1660–c.1770
• Civic unity and the problem of urban poverty: a case study of St Audoen’s parish, Dublin, 1655–1700
• The death of Mark Quin: identity, culture and politics in late seventeenth-century Dublin
• Dublin in an ‘era of improvement’: the public and the growth of the eighteenth-century city
• ‘Idle castle building airy schemes’: John Black III and the ‘improvement’ of eighteenth-century Belfast
• Presbyterians and Jacobites in County Antrim in 1716: the interplay of local and national politics in earlyeighteenth-century Ireland
• ‘The common opinion of the town’: rumour and rancour in provincial Ireland, 1758
• Jacqueline R. Hill: Publications to 2021 (excluding book reviews)
• Index