People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I.McGuire

by James Kelly

Overview

"People, Politics and Power" presents some of the most recent thinking on politics and society in Ireland from the Restoration to the Great Famine. Written by students and colleagues of James McGuire, the essays reflect McGuire's scholarly engagement with the interaction between the individual and the political arena, the Church of Ireland, the exercise of power in all its multifarious manifestations, and political biography. Each essay presents a new reading of the career of an emblematical figure, an important moment or a significant trend or issue, ranging across topics such as the legislative process, the politics of persuasion, life within the law and beyond it, constitutional change, religion and ideology. This book provides a stimulating new perspective on the various processes and influences that help to define people and their actions in Irish history between 1660 and 1850. James I. McGuire, the managing editor of the forthcoming seven-volume Dictionary of Irish Biography, lectured in history at University College Dublin for more than thirty years until his retirement in 2008.He was a highly respected editor of Ireland's leading history journal, Irish Historical Studies, for a number of years and is the author and editor of a series of seminal articles and collections that have had a major impact upon the historiography of Ireland. As chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission he has overseen a major revival in the published output and electronic resources of that body. As an undergraduate teacher and postgraduate supervisor, he nurtured sever generations of scholars in Irish history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906359225
Publisher:	University College Dublin Press
Publication date:	08/19/2009
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgements ix

Contributors to this Volume xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1 James I. McGuire: a personal memoir Art Cosgrove 13

2 John Bramhall's second Irish career, 1660-3 John McCafferty 16

3 The Irish legal profession and the Catholic revival, 1660-89 Hazel Maynard 28

4 The early modern Irish outlaw: the making of a nationalist icon Éamonn Ó Ciardha 51

5 Alan Brodrick and the speakership of the Irish House of Commons, 1703-4 Charles Ivar McGrath 70

6 Irish private divorce bills and acts of the eighteenth century John Bergin 94

7 Catholic disaffection and the oath of allegiance of 1774 Vincent Morley 122

8 Defending the established order: Richard Woodward, bishop of Cloyne (1726-94) James Kelly 143

9 Daniel O'Connell and the Irish Act of Union, 1800-29 Patrick M. Geoghegan 175

10 Thomas Davis and the Patriot Parliament of 1689 James Quinn 190

Appendix: The historical writings of James I. McGuire Clara Cullen 203

Index 208