1st Edition
The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts, Relations, and Commodities
1. Introduction: The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux
Charles C. Ludington
Section I: Emigration, Demography, and Trade
2. The Context of Bordeaux’s Eighteenth-Century Trade with the British Isles: Its Rise, Evolution, Social, and Commercial Structures
Louis M. Cullen
3. The Irish Merchant Colony of Bordeaux in the Eighteenth Century
Jean-Pierre Poussou
4. The Irish Merchant Community in 1757 Wartime Bordeaux
Thomas M. Truxes
Section II: Between Two Worlds? The Relationship of the Bordeaux Irish to Bordeaux and France
5. Concerning Patrice Mitchell, Reader of Shakespeare, and the Maintenance of English Among the Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux
Philippe Loupès
6. A Jacobite Refugee Family in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Bordeaux: The Clarkes of Dromantine
Patrick Clarke de Dromantin
7. The Irish College in Bordeaux and Its Connections to the Wider World
Diarmaid Ó Catháin
Section III: Commodities that Made the Trade: Their Meaning and Production
8. A Transatlantic Commodity: Irish Salt-Beef in the French Atlantic World
Bertie Mandelblatt
9. The Social Meaning of Claret in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Tara McConnell
10: Inventing Grand Cru Claret: Irish Wine Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux
Charles C. Ludington
Biography
Charles C. Ludington, Visiting Associate Professor at New York University, is the author of The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History (2013), A Long Shadow: The Story of an Ulster-Irish Family (2017), and co-editor of Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates (2019). From 2015–2017 he was a Marie Curie Senior Researcher at University College Cork and Université de Bordeaux-Michel Montaigne. He is currently working on a book about Irish merchants in Bordeaux and their role in the development of Bordeaux wine and is also general editor of the book series A Cultural History of Wine.
