Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1805, Part I, Volume 1: 1760-1779

ISBN-13: 9781138754065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 438 str.

Harry T. Dickinson

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The latter half of the eighteenth-century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions

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Preface -- General Introduction -- Introduction to Part I -- [Henry Brooke], The Case of the Roman-Catholics of Ireland (1760) -- Charles Lucas, Seasonable Advice to the Electors of Members of Parlement at the ensuing General Election (1760) -- Charles Lucas, An Address to the Free Electors of the City of Dublin (1761) -- Sir James Caldwell, A Brief Examination of the Question whether it is Expedient either in a Religious or Political View, to Pass an Act to Enable Papists to take Real Securities for Money which they may Lend, 2nd edn (1764) -- Charles Lucas, To the Right Honorable the Lord-Mayor, the Alderman, Sheriffs, Commons, Citizens, and Freeholds of Dublin (1765) -- To the Right Honourable Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin. The Counter Address of a Free Citizen (1766) -- A Candid Enquiry into the Causes and Motives of the Late Riots in the Province of Munster in Ireland (1767) -- An Essay on the Use and Necessity of Establishing a Militia in Ireland and Some Hints Towards a Plan for that Purpose (1767) -- An Act of Limiting the Duration of Parliaments (1768), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland] -- Charles Lucas, Seasonable Advice to the Electors of Members of Parlement at the Ensuing General Election, pt 2 (1768) -- Charles Lucas, The Rights and Privileges of Parlements Asserted upon Consititutional Principles (1770) -- [Robert French], The Constitution of Ireland, and Poyning’s Laws Explained, by a Friend to his County (1770) -- An Essay on the Character and Conduct of His Excellency Lord Visc. Townshend (1771) -- Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, 2nd edn (1773) -- An Act to Enable His Majesty’s Subjects of Whatever Persuasion to Testify their Allegiance to Him (1774) [Catholic Relief Act 1774], in The Statutes at Large [Ireland] -- An Appeal to the Understanding of the Electors of Ireland (1776) -- An Act for the Relief of His Majesty’s Subjects of this Kingdom Professing the Popish Religion (1778) [Catholic Relief Act 1778], in The Statutes at Large [Ireland] -- Humble Remonstrance for the Repeal of the Laws Against the Roman Catholics (1778) -- A Defence of Great Britain, Against a Charge of Tyranny in the Government of Ireland, by an Irishman (1779) -- Renovation Without Violence Yet Possible (1779) -- Editorial Notes.