Charles Ivar McGrath - Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770

IRELAND AND EMPIRE, 16921770

EMPIRES IN PERSPECTIVE

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

1 Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 18731936

Allison Drew

2 A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire

J. Lee Thompson

3 Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 18601920

Hayden J. A. Bellenoit

4 Transoceanic Radical, William Duane: National Identity and Empire, 17601835

Nigel Little

5 Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Sarah Irving

6 Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

Bruce Buchan

7 The English Empire in America, 16021658: Beyond Jamestown

L. H. Roper

8 India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 17541815

Kate Marsh

9 British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other

Frdric Regard (ed.)

10 Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England

Preeti Nijhar

11 Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition

Christer Petley

12 Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender

David Lowe

13 The Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in America, 17501860

Douglas S. Harvey

14 Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 16501725

Timothy Paul Grady

15 Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India

Angma Dey Jhala

16 British Engineers and Africa, 18751914

Casper Andersen

FORTHCOMING TITLES

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

Nicole Starbuck

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Northwest Passage

Frdric Regard (ed.)

The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 15761806

Frdric Regard (ed.)

Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 17691840

Rachel Standfield

IRELAND AND EMPIRE, 16921770

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Charles Ivar McGrath

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McGrath, Charles Ivar.

Ireland and empire, 16921770. (Empires in perspective)

1. Ireland History 18th century. 2. Ireland Politics and government 18th century. 3. Great Britain Colonies History 18th century.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-896-1 (hbk)

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PREFACE

The aim of this book is to examine Irelands place and role in the British Empire in the period 16921770. The subject emerged in 20045 from research I had undertaken between October 1999 and September 2003 on the related topics of money, politics and power in Ireland in the years 171461. I have published the results of that research during the past decade in various journal articles, essays and edited collections and I am indebted to both the National University of Ireland and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for providing the postdoctoral fellowships that facilitated all of that work. This book builds upon those foundations with further research undertaken since 20045, combined with a return to material first examined in the 1990s.

The completion of this book has been greatly assisted by a variety of people to whom I am deeply grateful. Marnie Hay, Eoin Magennis and Patrick Walsh have read and commented upon various chapters and have provided important corrections and improvements. All three have also discussed the work at length with me and patiently listened to lengthy discourses on the trials and tribulations associated with it. I am also much indebted to Catriona Magennis for her sage advice and assistance at a particularly difficult moment in the books gestation. All of the participants at the biennial Money, Power and Print Colloquia have helped me to form my ideas over the years, while my two co-convenors of those events, Chris Fauske and Rick Kleer, have been unstinting in their encouragement, support and intellectual stimulation. My colleagues in the School of History and Archives at UCD have all offered encouragement and support in a variety of ways and I could not have completed the writing of the book without a crucial research semester provided in the autumn of 2011, which was facilitated by the good graces of my co-workers. I am particularly indebted in this respect, and in many others, to my friend and Head of School, John McCafferty.