Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union - Ireland in the 1790s

Klappentext The essays in this collection focus on United Irish propaganda and organisation before and during the 1798 rebellion. Zusammenfassung This essay collection explores United Irish propaganda and organisation! and look at the forces of revolution before and during the 1798 rebellion. Their scope ranges from high to low politics! and it covers subjects from propaganda to art history and religion! looking beyond 1798 towards the immediate aftermath and longer-term consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The 1798 rebellion in its eighteenth-century contexts Jim Smith; 2. The politics of crisis and rebellion, 1792-8 Louis Cullen; 3. The magistracy and counter-revolution in Ulster, 1795-8 Nancy J. Curtin; 4. The shift in United Irish leadership from Belfast to Dublin, 1796-8 Tommy Graham; 5. The Belfast laugh: the context and significance of United Irish satires Mary Helen Thuente; 6. Class, religion and rebellion: Wexford in 1798 Daniel Gahan; 7. Endgame: the treatment of defeated rebels and 'suffering loyalists' after the 1798 rebellion Thomas Bartlett; 8. Marquess Cornwallis and the fate of Irish rebel prisoners in the aftermath of the 1798 rebellion Michael Durey; 9. The act of union and 'public opinion' Jim Smyth; 10. Radicals and reactionaries: portraits of the late 1790s in Ireland Fintan Cullen; 11. Irish Christianity and revolution David W. Miller; 12. Republicanism and radical memory: the O'Connors, O'Carolan and the United Irishmen Luke Gibbons.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Smyth, Jim (University of Notre Dame Smyth
• Assisted by: Jim Smyth (Editor), Smyth Jim (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521202343
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20234-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, C 1700 To C 1800