Ourselves Alone?

Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland

S.J. Connolly, editor

The period between the Williamite war and the act of union saw different groups in Irish society forced to reassess their ideas of political and national identi…

The making of the eighteenth-century Irish constitution

Government, parliament and the revenue, 1692–1714

Charles Ivar McGrath

The Glorious Revolution and the Irish War of 1689–91 fundamentally altered the course of Irish constitutional and political history. However, primarily because …

The making of British unionism, 1740–1848

Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship

Douglas Kanter

Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…

Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century

Essays for Toby Barnard

Raymond Gillespie & R.F. Foster, editors

In this book, thirteen distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocrac…

John Foster (1740–1828)

The politics of improvement and prosperity

Anthony Malcomson

John Foster was the last (1785–1800) speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the most important opponent of the Act of Union which extinguished both his offic…