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Revolution, counter-revolution and union : Ireland in the 1790s / edited by Jim Smyth.

Contributor(s): Smyth, Jim
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: xii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521661099Other title: Ireland in the 1790sSubject(s): Ireland -- History -- 1760-1820 | Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1798 | Ireland -- History -- Union, 1801DDC classification: 941.507 LOC classification: DA948.5 | .R48 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the 1798 rebellion in its eighteenth-century contexts / Jim Smyth -- The politics of crisis and rebellion, 1792-1798 / Louis M. Cullen -- The magistracy and counter-revolution in Ulster, 1795-1798 / Nancy J. Curtin -- The shift in United Irish leadership from Belfast to Dublin, 1796-1798 / Tommy Graham -- "The Belfast laugh": the context and significance of United Irish satires / Mary Helen Thuente -- Class, religion and rebellion: Wexford in 1798 / Daniel Gahan -- Clemency and compensation: the treatment of defeated rebels and suffering loyalists after the 1798 rebellion / Thomas Bartlett -- Marquess Cornwallis and the fate of Irish rebel prisoners in the aftermath of the 1798 rebellion / Michael Durey -- The Act of Union and "public opinion" / Jim Smyth -- Radicals and reactionaries: portraits of the 1790s in Ireland / Fintan Cullen -- Irish Christianity and revolution / David W. Miller -- Republicanism and radical memory: the O'Conors, O'Carolan and the United Irishmen / Luke Gibbons.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the 1798 rebellion in its eighteenth-century contexts / Jim Smyth -- The politics of crisis and rebellion, 1792-1798 / Louis M. Cullen -- The magistracy and counter-revolution in Ulster, 1795-1798 / Nancy J. Curtin -- The shift in United Irish leadership from Belfast to Dublin, 1796-1798 / Tommy Graham -- "The Belfast laugh": the context and significance of United Irish satires / Mary Helen Thuente -- Class, religion and rebellion: Wexford in 1798 / Daniel Gahan -- Clemency and compensation: the treatment of defeated rebels and suffering loyalists after the 1798 rebellion / Thomas Bartlett -- Marquess Cornwallis and the fate of Irish rebel prisoners in the aftermath of the 1798 rebellion / Michael Durey -- The Act of Union and "public opinion" / Jim Smyth -- Radicals and reactionaries: portraits of the 1790s in Ireland / Fintan Cullen -- Irish Christianity and revolution / David W. Miller -- Republicanism and radical memory: the O'Conors, O'Carolan and the United Irishmen / Luke Gibbons.

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