Bourke Richard - The Princeton History of Modern Ireland

THE PRINCETON HISTORY of MODERN IRELAND

THE PRINCETON

HISTORY of MODERN IRELAND

Edited by

RICHARD BOURKE & IAN McBRIDE

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edited by Richard Bourke and Ian McBride.

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1. IrelandHistory. I. Bourke, Richard, editor, author.
II. McBride, Ian, editor, author.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T HE EDITORS EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE to Al Bertrand for commissioning this volume on behalf of Princeton University Press. We are also greatly indebted to Quinn Fusting, Natalie Baan, and Cyd Westmoreland for their help in seeing the book through to completion. Finally, we thank Maggie Scull for her editorial work on a final draft of the typescript, and the anonymous readers for their careful and constructive comments.

CONTRIBUTORS

LAUREN ARRINGTON is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of W. B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence (2010) and Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz (2015).

JILL C. BENDER is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has written extensively on the relationship between India and Ireland in the mid- to late nineteenth century and on the impact of the 18571858 Indian Uprising across the British Empire.

JOHN BEW is Reader in History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at Kings College London and Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. His books include The Glory of Being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast (2009) and Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny (2011).

ANDY BIELENBERG is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at University College Cork. His publications include Ireland and the Industrial Revolution: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Irish Industry, 18011922 (2009) and (with Raymond Ryan) An Economic History of Ireland since Independence (2013).

RICHARD BOURKE is Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas (2009) and Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (2015).

CIARA BOYLAN is a post-doctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin. She has published on the Great Famine and nineteenth-century Irish educational and social history and is currently researching aspects of educational publishing in Ireland.

DANIEL CAREY is Director of the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway and Professor in the School of Humanities. His publications include Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (2006). He is currently completing a cultural history of travel in the Renaissance.

ENDA DELANEY is Professor in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Among his publications are The Irish in Post-War Britain (2007) and The Curse of Reason: The Great Irish Famine (2012).

DAVID DWAN is Associate Professor in English and Fellow of Hertford College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (2008) and is currently completing Liberty, Equality and Humbug: George Orwells Political Thought.

DIARMAID FERRITER is Professor of Modern Irish History in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin. His books include The Transformation of Ireland, 19002000 (2004) and A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution, 19131923 (2015).

ULTN GILLEN is Senior Lecturer in European History in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Teesside, England. He has published widely on political culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland and is currently working on a study of the life and political thought of Theobald Wolfe Tone.

MATTHEW KELLY is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southampton. His books include The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 18821916 (2006) and Finding Poland: From Tavistock to Hruzdowa and Back Again (2010).

CATRIONA KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. She has written extensively on gender in Britain and Ireland in the long eighteenth century and is the author of Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Military and Civilian Experience in Britain and Ireland (2013).

MARIA LUDDY is Professor of Modern Irish History in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, Coventry. Among her publications are Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1995) and Prostitution and Irish Society, 18001940 (2007).

IAN MCBRIDE is Professor of Irish and British History in the Department of History at Kings College London. His books include Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1998) and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Isle of Slaves (2009).

FEARGHAL MCGARRY is Reader in Modern Irish History in the School of History and Anthropology at Queens University Belfast. Among his books are Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999) and The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916 (2010).

VINCENT MORLEY was previously a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy and has lectured in Irish history at the National University of Ireland. He is the author of Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 17601783 (2002) and Chitinn go Raifteara: Mar a Cumadh Stair na hireann (2011).

MARC MULHOLLAND is Associate Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of St. Catherines College at the University of Oxford. His publications include