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Documenting Ireland in the age of the American and French Revolutions*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2015

Allan Blackstock
Allan Blackstock*
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Ulster University
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School of English and History, Ulster University, [email protected]
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 155 , May 2015 , pp. 521 - 531
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Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805. Edited by Harry T Dickinson. London and Vermont: Pickering and Chatto. 2012–13. Part I (in 3 vols). Pp 1200. Part II (in 3 vols). Pp 1248. £550 for 6 volume set.

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