People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I.McGuire

Presents some of the most recent thinking on politics and society in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Each essay presents a new reading of the career of an emblematic figure, an important moment or a significant trend or issue, ranging across topics such as the legislative process, the politics of persuasion, life within the law and beyond it, constitutional change, religion, and ideology. The book provides a stimulating new perspective on the various processes and influences that help to define people and their actions in Irish history between 1660 and 1850.