1st Edition

Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805, Part II, Volume 6

By Harry T Dickinson Copyright 2014

    The latter half of the eighteenth-century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and reach of this influence by publishing pamphlets dealing with the major political issues of these decades.

    Joshua Spencer, Thoughts on an Union (1798) -- [Edward Cooke], Arguments For and Against an Union, between Great Britain and Ireland, Considered, 8th edn (1798) -- A Report of the Debate of the Irish Bar … on the Subject of an Union of the Legislatures of Great Britain and Ireland (1799) -- [Charles Kendal Bushe], The Union. Cease Your Funning (1798) -- Th eobald McKenna, A Memoire on Some Questions Refl ecting the Projected Union of Great Britain and Ireland (1799) -- An Old Friend, An Address to the Roman Catholics of Ireland (1799) -- John Collis, An Address to the People of Ireland, on the Projected Union (1799) -- John Hamilton, A Letter to Th eobald McKenna, Esq. (1799) -- [Roger O’Connor], An Address to the People of Ireland; Shewing them Why they Ought to Submit to an Union (1799) -- Dr Dodd, Calm Considerations on the Probable Consequences of an Union of the Kingdom of Ireland with that of Great Britain (1799) -- ‘Hibernicus’ [pseud.], English Union, is Ireland’s Ruin! or An Address to the Irish Nation (1799) -- Th e Speech of Henry Grattan, Esq. on the Subject of a Legislative Union with Great Britain (1800) -- An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, in Th e Statutes at Large [England] (1800) -- ‘The Indictment of Robert Emmet, his Reply, and an Account of his Insurrection (1803)’, in The Life, Trial and Conversations of Robert Emmet, Leader of the Irish Insurrection of 1803 (1836) -- [Th eobald McKenna], An Abstract of the Arguments on the Catholic Question (1805) -- Editorial Notes -- Index.