Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

GEORGE BOYCE is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Wales, Swansea. - ROBERT ECCLESHALL is a Lecturer at the School of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast. - VINCENT GEOGHEGAN is a Lecturer at the School of Politics at Queen's University, Belfast.

• Notes on the Contributors Preface 'Firm Catholics' or 'Loyal Subjects'? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-Century Ireland; A.Ford Thomas Sheridan: Toleration and Royalism; V.Geoghegan The Political Ideas of Anglican Ireland in the 1690s; R.Eccleshall The Road to Wood's Halfpence and Beyond: William King, Jonathan Swift, and the Defence of the National Church, 1689-1724; D.G.Boyce Public and Political Opinion in Ireland and the Idea of an Anglo-Irish Union, 1650-1800; J.Kelly Ideas of Union in Anglo-Irish Political Discourse, 1692-1720: Meaning and Use; D.Hayton Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, c.1688-1733; A.McBride The Languages of Politeness and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; T.Barnard Politics and the Writing of History: The Impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish Historiography; J.Hill Republicans Before the United Irishmen: The Case of Dr Charles Lucas; J.Smyth Volunteer Thought: William Crawford of Strabane; N.Vance 'A Perfect Liberty': The Rise and Fall of the Irish Whigs 1789-97; N.J.Curtin Index

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