Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
‘Firm Catholics’ or ‘Loyal Subjects’? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-century Ireland....Pages 1-31
Thomas Sheridan: Toleration and Royalism....Pages 32-61
The Political Ideas of Anglican Ireland in the 1690s....Pages 62-80
The Road to Wood’s Halfpence and Beyond: William King, Jonathan Swift and the Defence of the National Church, 1689–1724....Pages 81-109
Public and Political Opinion in Ireland and the Idea of an Anglo-Irish Union, 1650–1800....Pages 110-141
Ideas of Union in Anglo-Irish Political Discourse, 1692–1720: Meaning and Use....Pages 142-168
Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, c. 1688–1733....Pages 169-192
The Languages of Politeness and Sociability in Eighteenth-century Ireland....Pages 193-221
Politics and the Writing of History: The Impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish Historiography....Pages 222-239
Republicanism before the United Irishmen: The Case of Dr Charles Lucas....Pages 240-256
Volunteer Thought: William Crawford of Strabane....Pages 257-269
‘A Perfect Liberty’: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Whigs, 1789–97....Pages 270-289
Back Matter....Pages 290-309