Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790sJim Smyth The study of Ireland in the explosive decade of the 1790s has probably been the fastest-growing area in Irish history writing in the 1990s. The focus has been on the radical and revolutionary United Irish movement, popular politics, and the lower-class secret society, the Defenders. This volume of essays explores United Irish propaganda and organisation, and looks at the forces of revolution before and during the 1798 rebellion. It also begins to redress imbalances in the historiography of the period by turning to the face of counter-revolution - examining the crisis in law and order, the role of the agistrates, the strength and weaknesses of the state, and the scope and character of the repression following the rebellion. Other essays consider the short-term and longer-term consequences of these momentous events, including their impact upon the churches, the Act of Union, and the politics of early nineteenth-century America. |
Contents
The politics of crisis and rebellion 17921798 | 21 |
The magistracy and counterrevolution in Ulster 17951798 | 39 |
The shift in United Irish leadership from Belfast to Dublin | 55 |
Wexford in 1798 | 83 |
the treatment of defeated | 99 |
Marquess Cornwallis and the fate of Irish rebel prisoners | 128 |
The Act of Union and public opinion | 146 |
portraits of the 1790s in Ireland | 161 |
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Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: With Related Texts Charles Brockden Brown,Philip Barnard,Stephen Shapiro No preview available - 2006 |
Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760 ... Gregory Fremont-Barnes No preview available - 2007 |