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Informationen zum Autor Peter Gray is professor of modern Irish history and director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of a number of books, including The Making of the Irish Poor Law 1815-43 and Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50 . Klappentext In this volume a number of leading historians explore the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution -political, social and cultural-between its gradual emergence in the wake of the Tudor proclamation of the Kingdom of Ireland' in 1541, and the office's abolition in the context of revolution, independence, and partition in 1922. Zusammenfassung Explores the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political! social and cultural - between its gradual emergence in the wake of the Tudor proclamation of the 'Kingdom of Ireland' in 1541! and the office's abolition in the context of revolution! independence and partition in 1922. Inhaltsverzeichnis PETER GRAY AND OLWEN PURDUE: Introduction: The Irish Lord Lieutenancy! c. 1541-1922; CIARAN BRADY: Viceroys? The Irish chief governors! 1541-1641; CHARLES IVAR MCGRATH: Late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century governance and the viceroyalty; JAMES KELLY: Residential and non-residential lords lieutenant - the viceroyalty! 1703-90; TOBY BARNARD: The lord lieutenancy and cultural and literary patronage c. 1660-1780; GILLIAN O'BRIEN: Revolution! rebellion and the viceroyalty! 1789-99; K. THEODORE HOPPEN: A question none could answer: 'What was the Irish viceroyalty for?'! 1800-1921; PETER GRAY: A 'people's viceroyalty'? Popularity! theatre and executive politics! 1835-47; JAMES LOUGHLIN: The British monarchy and the Irish viceroyalty: politics! architecture and place! 1870-1914; PATRICK MAUME: Lady Microbe and the Kailyard viceroy: The Aberdeen viceroyalty! welfare monarchy! and the politics of philanthropy; KEITH JEFFERY: Vizekonigerdammerung: Lords French and FitzAlan at the Lodge! 1918-22; Appendix: The Chief governors of Ireland! 1541-1922; Index. ...
