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

ISBN-13: 9780521661096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 258 str.

Smyth, Jim

Opis

This volume of essays explores United Irish propaganda and organization, and looks at the forces of revolution before and during the 1798 rebellion. Its scope ranges from high to low politics, and it covers subjects from literary propaganda to art history and the history of religion. It also differs from earlier "bicentenary" volumes by shedding new light on "counter-revolution," repression, and the state, and by shifting the chronological center of gravity away from 1798 toward the immediate aftermath and the longer-term consequences.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'These essays … bring new aspects to light, do not denigrate the protagonists and will stimulate further study.' NW Labour History Journal

Spis treści

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.