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Introduction. Interpreting late early modern Ireland James Kelly; Part I. Politics c.1730-c.1845: 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691-1790 Vincent Morley; 2. The politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-1790 James Kelly; 3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793-1815 Thomas Bartlett; 4. The impact of O'Connell, 1815-1850 Patrick M. Geoghegan; 5. Popular politics, 1815-1845 Maura Cronin; Part II. Economy and Demography: 6. Society and economy in the long eighteenth century David Dickson; 7. The Irish economy, 1815-1880: agricultural transition, the communications revolution and the limits of industrialisation Andy Bielenberg; 8. Population and emigration, 1730-1845 Brian Gurrin; 9. Women, men and the family, 1730-1880 Sarah-Anne Buckley; Part III. Religion: 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690-1790 Thomas O'Connor; 11. The re-energising of Catholicism, 1790-1880 Colin Barr; 12. Protestant dissenters, c.1690-1800 Ian McBride; 13. Protestantism in the nineteenth century: revival and crisis Andrew R. Holmes; Part IV. Shaping Society: 14. Language and literacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Aidan Doyle; 15. Futures past: enlightenment and antiquarianism in the eighteenth century Michael Brown and Lesa Ni Mhunghaile; 16. Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century Christine Casey; 17. Civil society, 1700-1850 Martyn J. Powell; 18. Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries James Kelly; 19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean Ciaran O Neill; 20. The growth of the state in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman; Part V. The Irish Abroad: 21. The Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century, 1691-1815 Liam Chambers; 22. 'Irish' migration to America in the eighteenth century? Or the strange case for the 'Scots/Irish' Patrick Griffin; 23. Ireland and the empire in the nineteenth century Barry Crosbie; Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath: 24. The Great Famine, 1845-1850 Peter Gray; 25. Irish emigration, c.1845-1900 Kevin Kenny; 26. Post-famine politics, 1850-1879 Douglas Kanter; 27. Afterword Toby Barnard.
About the author
James Kelly is Professor of History at Dublin City University. He is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and President of the Irish Economic and Social History Society. His publications include That Damn'd Thing Called Honour: Duelling in Ireland, 1750–1860 (1995); Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1998); Poynings' Law and the Making of Law in Ireland, 1660–1800 (2007); and, as editor (with Martyn Powell), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010); (with Mary Ann Lyons), The Proclamations of Ireland, 1660–1820 (5 vols, 2014), and (with Elizabeth FitzPatrick) of Food and Drink in Ireland (2016). His book Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840 (2014) won the special commendation prize offered by the National University of Ireland in 2016.Thomas Bartlett was born in Belfast, and is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast. He has held positions at the National University of Ireland, Galway, then as Professor of Modern Irish history at University College Dublin, and most recently as Professor of Irish history at the University of Aberdeen, until his retirement in 2014. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and his previous publications include Ireland: A History (Cambridge, 2010).
Summary
Provides new and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the history of Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, transcends and moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.
