Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War - Reflections on the Bordeauxdublin Letters, 1757

List of contents

Introduction: A Connected Irish World
[Thomas M. Truxes]

1. The Irish Colony in Bordeaux, 1757: A Representative Sample of Irish Communities Abroad?
[Nicholas Canny]

2. The Boyds in Bordeaux and Dublin
[L.M. Cullen]

3. "Precarious and Dangerous Times": Ireland and France and the Spectre of Invasion, 1690–1760
[James Kelly]

4. Seven Sisters?: The Seaport Cities of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ireland
[David Dickson]

5. Prize-Taking: Its Role in Maritime Strategy and Ultimate Success in the Seven Years’ War
[Daniel A. Baugh]

6. The Outset and Course of the Seven Years’ War in Bordeaux, 1755–1763
[Jean-Pierre Poussou]

7. Fate, Providence, and Trust in the Atlantic
[Karen Ordahl Kupperman]

8. Between Lines: Language, Intimacy, and Voyeurism During Global War
[Christian Ayne Crouch]

9. "It is with pleasure I lay hold of evry occasion of wrightin": Female Domestic Servants, The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, and the Epistolary Novel
[Marie-Louise Coolahan]

10. Spanish Subornment of English and Irish Textile Workers, 1749–1756
[Thomas O’Connor]

About the author

Thomas M. Truxes is Clinical Associate Professor of Irish Studies and History at New York University.

Summary

In March 1757 – early in the Seven Years’ War – a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British arc

Product details

• Authors: Thomas M. Truxes, Thomas M. (Nyu Truxes, Truxes Thomas M.
• Assisted by: Thomas M. Truxes (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367881368
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88136-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance