From Patriots to Unionists Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840
, by Hill, JacquelineNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198206354 | 0198206356
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/2/1997
This is the first full-length study of the Protestant middle-class Patriots of Dublin, who, in the eighteenth-century, made up the largest concentration of Protestants in Ireland (c.70,000). Freemen of the guilds alone--who were entitled to a parliamentary vote--were almost as numerous as the entire landed class. Hill charts the slow and difficult progress of these merchants, master craftsmen, and shopkeepers, from Patriotism in the eighteenth century to a Unionist position in the nineteenth, throwing light on all subsequent Irish history, and filling an important gap in the historiography of Unionism.