Documenting Ireland in the age of the American and French Revolutions*

¹ Bartlett, Thomas, ‘Militarization and politicization in Ireland, 1780–1820’ in Louis Bergeron and Louis M. Cullen (eds), Culture et pratiques politiques en France et en Irelande (Paris, 1988), pp 125–136; see also Suibhne, Breandán Mac, ‘Whiskey, potatoes and paddies: volunteering and the construction of the Irish nation in north-west Ulster, 1778–1782’ in Peter Jupp and Eoin Magennis (eds), Crowds in Ireland, c.1720–1920 (Basingstoke, 2000), pp 45–82.

² Harris, Tim (ed.), The politics of the excluded, c.1500–1850 (New York, 2001).

³ Higgins, Padhraig, A nation of politicians: gender, patriotism and political culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland (Madison, WN, 2012), p. 6; see also Morley, Vincent, Irish opinion and the American Revolution, 1760–1783 (Cambridge, 2002); Small, Stephen, Political thought in Ireland, 1776–1798: republicanism, patriotism and radicalism (Oxford, 2002); Powell, M. J., Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth-century crisis of empire (Basingstoke, 2003).

⁴ Snodaigh, Pádraig Ó, ‘Notes on the Volunteers, militia, Orangemen and yeomanry of County Roscommon’ in The Irish Sword, xii (1975–76), pp 15–35; Blackstock, Allan, An ascendancy army: the Irish yeomanry, 1796–1834 (Dublin, 1998), pp 75–97.

⁵ Bartlett, Thomas, ‘A weapon of war as yet untried: Irish Catholics and the armed forces of the Crown’ in T. G. Fraser and Keith Jeffery (eds), Men, women and war (Dublin, 1993), pp 66–85; Dickinson, H. T., ‘Popular conservatism and militant loyalism, 1789–1815’ in H. T. Dickinson (ed.), Britain and the French Revolution, 1789–1815 (London, 1989).

⁶ For example, Volume 1 contains the following: [Henry Brooke], The Case of the Roman-Catholics of Ireland (1760); Lucas, Charles, Seasonable Advice to the Electors of Members of Parlement at the ensuing General Election (1760); [Charles Lucas], Address to the Free Electors of the City of Dublin (1761); Anon, ., Enquiry into the riots in Munster, taken from the Dublin Magazine (1763); Lucas, Charles, To the Right Honorable the Lord-Mayor … The Address of Charles Lucas, M.D. one of their Representatives in Parlement (1765); Anon, ., To the Right Honourable Lord Mayor … The Counter Address of a Free Citizen (1766); Anon, ., An Essay on the Use and Necessity of establishing a Militia in Ireland (1767); Statutes at Large of Ireland: Octennial Act (1768); Lucas, Charles, The Rights and Privileges of Parlements asserted upon constitutional principles (1770); [Robert French], The Constitution of Ireland, and Poyning’s Laws explained (1770); Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces from 1769 to 1772 (1773) [excerpts]; Statutes at Large of Ireland: Catholic Relief Act (1774); Anon, ., An Appeal to the Understanding of the Electors of Ireland (1776); Statutes at Large of Ireland: Catholic Relief Act (1778); Anon, ., Humble Remonstrance for the repeal of the laws against Roman Catholics (1778); Anon, ., A Defence of Great Britain, against a charge of tyranny in the Government of Ireland (1779).

⁷ Small, , Political thought in Ireland, p. 28.

⁸ Lucas, Charles, The rights and Ppivileges of Parlements asserted upon constitutional principles: against the modern anticonstitutional clames of chief governors (Dublin, 1770); see also Bartlett, Thomas, ‘Opposition in late eighteenth-century Ireland: the case of the Townshend Viceroyalty’ in Irish Historical Studies, Irish Historical Studies, no. xxii (Sept. 1981), pp 313–330.

⁹ Brooke, Henry, The case of the Roman Catholics of Ireland in a course of letters from a member of the Protestant church in that kingdom to his friend in England (Dublin, 1760).

¹⁰ See Magennis, Eoin, ‘A Presbyterian insurrection? Reconsidering the Hearts of Oak disturbances of July 1763’ in Irish Historical Studies, Irish Historical Studies, no. xxxi (Nov. 1998), pp 165–187; Donnelly Jnr, J. S., ‘Hearts of Oak, Hearts of Steel’ in Studia Hibernica, xxi (1981), pp 7–73; idem, , ‘Pastorini and Captain Rock’ in Samuel Clark and J. S. Donnelly Jnr (eds), Irish peasants and political unrest, 1790–1914 (Manchester, 1983), pp 102–142.

¹¹ Connolly, S. J., ‘Jacobites, Whiteboys and Republicans: varieties of disaffection in eighteenth-century Ireland’ in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xviii (2003), pp 63–79; Morley, Irish opinion and the American Revolution; Ciardha, Éamonn Ó, Ireland and the Jacobite cause, 1685–1766: a fatal attachment (Dublin, 2002).

¹² Barnard, T. C, ‘The uses of 23 October 1641 and Irish Protestant celebrations’ in E.H.R., cvi (1991), pp 889–920; Connolly, S. J., ‘The Glorious Revolution in Irish Protestant thinking’ in S. J. Connolly (ed.) Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin, 2000), pp 43–44, 48–9; idem, , ‘The Church of Ireland and the royal martyr: regicide and revolution in Anglican political thought, c.1660–c.1745’ in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, no. liv (July 2003), pp 484–506; for a general overview on crowds and protest see Jupp, Peter and Magennis, Eoin ‘Introduction: crowds in Ireland c.1730–1920’, in idem (eds), Crowds in Ireland, pp 1–42.

¹³ Blackstock, Allan, ‘Armed citizens and Christian soldiers: crisis sermons and Ulster Presbyterians, 1715–1803’ in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xxii (2007), pp 81–105.

¹⁴ Blackstock, Allan, Loyalism in Ireland, 1789–1829 (Woodbridge, 2007), p. 93; McBride, Ian, Scripture politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish radicalism in the late eighteenth century (Oxford, 1998), p. 175.

¹⁵ Beckett, J. C., The Anglo-Irish tradition (London, 1976), pp 50–51; see also Connolly, S. J., Divided kingdom: Ireland, 1630–1800 (Oxford, 2008), pp 420, 422, 485–487.

¹⁶ See Small, , Political thought in Ireland, pp 113–115.

¹⁷ Dickinson (ed.) Ireland in the age of revolution, vol. 3.

¹⁸ For discussion of Charles Sheridan see Higgins, , A nation of politicians: gender, patriotism and political culture, pp 3–4, and Small, Political thought in Ireland.

¹⁹ Kelly, James, ‘The genesis of the “Protestant Ascendancy”: the Rightboy disturbances of the 1780s and their impact on Protestant opinion’ in Gerard O’Brien (ed.) Parliament, politics and people: essays in eighteenth-century Irish history (Dublin, 1989), pp 93–127.

²⁰ Bartlett, Thomas, The fall and rise of the Irish nation: the Catholic question, 1690–1830 (Dublin, 1992).

²¹ Whelan, Kevin, The tree of liberty: radicalism, Catholicism and the constriction of Irish identity (Cork, 1996), pp 3, 54–5.

²² Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster (London and New York, 2000); Rafferty, Oliver, Catholicism in Ulster, 1603–1983 (Dublin, 1994); see also Corish, Patrick, The Irish Catholic experience (Dublin, 1985); Connolly, S. J., Religion and society in nineteenth-century Ireland (Dundalk, 1985).

²³ See English, Richard, ‘Directions in historiography: history and Irish nationalism’ in Irish Historical Studies, Irish Historical Studies, no. xxxvii (May 2011), pp 447–460; and Joseph Bergin, Eoin Magennis, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, Patrick Walsh (eds), New perspectives on the penal laws, Eighteenth-century Ireland, special issue, no. 1 (2011).

²⁴ Fagan, Patrick, Divided loyalties: the question of an oath for Irish Catholics in the eighteenth century (Dublin, 1997); see also Blackstock, , Loyalism in Ireland, pp 77–78.

²⁵ Jupp, Peter, ‘Dr Duigenan reconsidered’ in Sabine Wichert (ed.), From the United Irishmen to twentieth-century Unionism (Dublin, 2004).

²⁶ Kirkpatrick, Francis, Loyalty and the times (Dublin, 1804).

²⁷ See volume 3 [Patrick Duigenan], The alarm: or, an address to the nobility, gentry, and clergy, of the Church of Ireland, as by law established (1783); Anon, , All’s well: a reply to the author of The alarm (1783).

²⁸ Higgins, , A nation of politicians, pp 3–5.

²⁹ Keogh, Dáire and Furlong, Nicholas, The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (Dublin, 1996).

³⁰ McBride, Ian, ‘Reclaiming the Rebellion: 1798 in 1998’ in Irish Historical Studies, Irish Historical Studies, no. xxxi (May 1999), pp 395–410.

³¹ Ibid., pp 402–9.

³² Bartlett, Thomas, ‘An end to moral economy: the Irish militia disturbances of 1793’ in Past and Present, no. 94 (May 1983), pp 41–64.

³³ Kelly, James, Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818: ultra-Protestant ideologue (Dublin, 2009), p. 103.

³⁴ Reid, Horace, ‘The Battle of Ballynahinch: an anthology of the documents’ in Myrtle Hill, Brian Turner and Kenneth Dawson (eds), The 1798 rebellion in County Down (Newtownards, 1998).

³⁵ See Kelly, James, ‘The historiography of the Act of union’ in Michael Brown, Patrick Geoghegan and James Kelly (eds), The Irish Act of Union (Dublin, 2003), p. 17.

³⁶ Kelly, , ‘Historiography of the Act of Union’, pp 1, 6, 34–5.

³⁷ Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 (London, 1988), p. 284.

³⁸ Wilkinson, David, ‘How did they pass the union: secret service expenditure in Ireland, History, lxxxii (1997), pp 223–251; Geoghegan, , Irish Act of Union, pp vii–ix.

³⁹ See Brown, Geoghegan & Kelly (eds), Irish Act of Union: bicentennial essays.

⁴⁰ Geoghegan, , Irish Act of Union, p. vii; Bew, John, Castlereagh: Enlightenment, war and tyranny (London, 2011), p. 165.

⁴¹ Hill, Jacqueline, ‘Dublin after the Union: the age of the ultra-Protestants’ in Brown, Geoghegan & Kelly (eds), Irish Act of Union, pp 144–156; Senior, Hereward, Orangeism in Ireland and Britain (London and Toronto, 1966), pp 118–137.

⁴² Geoghegan, , Irish Act of Union, pp 192–199.

⁴³ McCormack, W. J. (ed.) The pamphlet debate on the union between Great Britain and Ireland, 1797–1800 (Dublin, 1996).

* Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805. Edited by Harry T Dickinson. London and Vermont: Pickering and Chatto. 2012–13. Part I (in 3 vols). Pp 1200. Part II (in 3 vols). Pp 1248. £550 for 6 volume set.