Political Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland

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 identity, against the background of a changing society at home and intellectual and political revolution abroad. This volume of essays, deriving from a Folger Library, Washington, seminar, examines radical, patriot and conservative political ideas, from the debates on the meaning of the Revolution of 1688 to the emergence of democratic republicanism, and a redefined conservatism, in the 1790s. A concluding overview by Professor J.G.A. Pocock puts the Irish case in the wider context of the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century.

S.J. Connolly is Professor of Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast Jacqueline Hill is Senior Lecturer in the department of Modern History at NUI Maynooth Robert Mahony is Associate Professor of English at the Catholic University of America. Patrick Kelly is Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin Ian McBride is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Durham James Kelly is head of the History department at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin J.G.A. Pocock is Professor emeritus of History at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore