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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
Those who wish to put together the complete picture and story of eighteenth-century Ireland, in so far as these have been assembled in the literature of the last thirty years, will need to study many writings that lie on the periphery of the subject, or at least outside the main historiographical tradition. The scholarship seems to exist in separate layers which sometimes touch one another without quite interpenetrating; and a man may make a genuine contribution in his own field but still require to be read with a special critical alertness because he is unaware of what is happening in other fields. Important items may appear in periodicals not regularly consulted by historians.
1 Davis’s, H. earlier edition, The drapier’s letters to the people of Ireland against receiving Wood’s half-pence (Oxford, 1935)Google Scholar provides a fuller historical account. See also Landa, Louis A., ‘Swift’s economic views and mercantilism’ Jn. Eng. Lit. Hist., 10 (1943), pp. 310–35.Google Scholar
2 Iii (1938), pp. 3–26; and liii (1939), pp. 79-87. Cf. the same author’s ’Berkeley and the abortive bank project of 1720–21 ’, ibid., liv (1939), pp. 110-19; and other articles relating to Berkeley’s ideas on currency, ibid., lv (1940), pp. 73–86, and ibid., Ivi (1940), pp. 77–83.
3 Edmund Burke, New York agent, with his letters to the New York assembly and intimate correspondence with Charles O’Hara, 1761-1776 (Philadelphia, 1956).
4 ‘ Edmund Burke and Charles Lucas ’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, lxviii (1953), pp. 1046–55.
5 Edmund Burke and Ireland (Cambridge, Mass., 1960).
6 Weston, John C. Jr., ‘Burke’s Irish history : a hypothesis’ P.M.L.A., 77 (1962), pp. 397–403 Google Scholar. See also articles by Love, Walter D., ‘Edmund Burke, Charles Valancey and the Sebright Mss.’, Hermathena, 95 (1961), pp. 21–35 Google Scholar; ‘Charles O’Conor of Belanagare and Thomas Leland’s “philosophical” history of Ireland’, I.H.S., xiii (1962–3), pp. 1–25; and ‘ Edmund Burke and an Irish historical controversy ’, Theory and History, ii (1962–3), pp. 180–98.
7 E.g. Johnston, S.H.F , ‘The Irish establishment’ in Irish Sword, 1(1949–53), PP. 33–6.Google Scholar
8 E.g. Biographical dictionary of Irishmen in France (Dublin, 1949). Cf. Hayes, Richard, ‘A neglected corner of Irish history’ Studies, 29 (1940), pp. 572–82,Google Scholar where Lecky is quoted for the thesis that the real history of catholic Ireland in the eighteenth century lay in France and Spain.
9 E.g. Dickson, R.J., Ulster emigration to colonial America, 1718–1775 (London, 1966).Google Scholar Cf. Dunaway, W.F., The Irish-Scotch of colonial Pennsylvania (Ghapel Hill, N. Gar., 1944; London, 1962)Google Scholar; Green, E.R.R., ‘The Scotch-Irish and the coming of the revolution in North Carolina ’, I.H.S., 7 (1950–1), pp. 225–34Google Scholar; Moody, T.W., ‘The Ulster Scots in colonial and revolutionary America’, Studies, 34 (1945), pp. 85–94 and 211–21Google Scholar; and ‘Irish and Scotch-Irish in eighteenth-century America’, discussing Dunaway, op. cit., Studies, xxxv (1946), pp. 85–90.
10 Butterneid, H., ‘Trends in historical study in England’, I.H.S., 4 (1944–5), PP. 212–13.Google Scholar
11 Descriptions of local industry abound : e.g., Monaghan, John J., ‘The rise and fall of the Belfast cotton industry’, ibid., 3 (1942–3), pp. 1–17.Google Scholar
12 ‘ The colonisation of waste land in Ireland, 1780–1845’, Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd series, iii (1950–1), pp. 40–71. See also : Connell, K.H., The population of Ireland, 1750–1845 (Oxford, 1950)Google Scholar and ‘Land and population in Ireland, 1780–1845’ Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd series, ii (1949–50), pp. 278–89.
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16 Cf. James, F.G., ‘Irish smuggling in the eighteenth century’ I.H.S., 12 (1960–61), pp. 299–317.Google Scholar
17 E.g. Wall, Maureen (née MacGeehin), ‘The catholics of the towns and the quarterage dispute in eighteenth-century Ireland’, ibid., 8 (1952–3) pp. 91–114 Google Scholar; ‘The rise of a catholic middle class in eighteenth-century Ireland’, ibid., xi (1958-9), pp. 91-115; and ‘The Catholic merchants, manufacturers and traders of Dublin, 1778–82’, Reportorium Novum, ii (1957–60), pp. 299–323.
18 See p. 388 below.
19 See p. 385 below.
20 ‘Land owned by catholics in Ireland in 1688’ I.H.S., vii (1950–51), pp. 180–90.
21 ‘The conflict between the Irish administration and parliament, 1753–56’ ibid., iii (1942-3), pp. 159–79.
22 Dr Barry to the earl of Orrery, 4 Mar. 1752, The Orrery papers, ii. 101; quoted in Valentine, Alan, Lord George Germain (London, 1962), 24nGoogle Scholar.
23 Letters of Horace Walpole (ed. Mrs P. Toynbee), xiii. 314n
24 ‘The Irish viceroyalty, 1760–73’, Essays on British and Irish history in honour of J. E. Todd, ed. Cronne, H.A., Moody, T.W., and Quinn, D.B., p. 152–68.Google Scholar
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26 L.H.S., v (1946–7), PP. 209–30.
27 L.H S., xi (1958–9), pp. 18–45. See also, Bodkin, M., s.j., ‘Notes on the Irish parliament in 1773’, R.L.A. proc., 48 (1942–3), section G, pp. 145–232 Google Scholar; and Sayles, G.O., ‘Contemporary sketches of the members of the Irish parliament in 1782’, ibid., 56 (1953–4), section C, pp. 227–86.Google Scholar
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31 See however, Beckett, J.C., ‘The government of the Church of Ireland under William III and Anne’, ibid., 2 (1940–41), pp. 280–302 Google Scholar; ‘William King’s administration of the diocese of Deny, 1691–1703 ‘, ibid., iv (1944–5), PP. 164–80; and ‘Swift as an ecclesiastical statesman’ Essays on British and Irish history in honour of J. E. Todd, ed., Cronne, , Moody, and Quinn, , pp. 134–51.Google Scholar See also Landa, Louis A., Swift and the Church of Ireland (Oxford, 1954).Google Scholar
32 ‘The making of a penal law, (2 Anne, c. 6), in 1703–4’, I.H.S., xii (1960–61), pp. 105–18.
33 Irish Historical Association Pamphlets, no. 1 (Dundalk, 1961).
34 Review of Politics, xxi (1959), pp. 276–99.
35 Ibid., xxiv (1962), pp. 485–508.
36 Arch. Hib. xvii (1953), appendix, p. 147 (from the Hibernian Journal, 18 Dec. 1771 ). This is one of the extracts published by the Rev. John Brady in an appendix, ‘Catholics and Catholicism in the eighteenth-century press ’, through vols xvi to xx of Arch. Hib.
37 Reportorium Novum, i (1955–6), pp. 443–60.
38 Thomas, P.D.G., ‘The authorship of the MS Irish parliamentary diary (1776–89) in the Library of Congress’, E.H.R., 77 (1962), pp. 94–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Cf. Jernegan, M.W., ‘The debates in the Irish house of commons 1776–1789’, ibid., 24 (1909), pp. 104–6.Google Scholar
39 The history of the Irish newspaper, 1685–1760 (Cambridge, 1967). There is an interesting historical introduction also to Munter, R., A handlist of Irish newspapers, 1685–1750 (London, 1960).Google Scholar
40 ‘The use of secret service money in subsidising the Irish press, 1776-89’, E.H.R., Ivi (1941), pp. 639–46. Cf. Aspinall, A.,‘The Irish “proclamation” fund, 1800–1846’, ibid., pp. 265–80 Google Scholar; and Politics and the press (London, 1949), pp. 108–25, 134–47.
41 Here he bases himself on Finegan, Francis, s.j., ‘The Irish catholic convert rolls’, Studies, 37 (1949), pp. 73–82 Google Scholar; but I cannot see in this article any justification for his statement (Review of Politics, xxiv. 508) that ‘half the legal conformities recorded on the convert rolls were obtained during the years 1773-1790’. Finegan, p. 80, finds 1,878 between 1700 and 1752, and 2,177 between 1752 and 1772, making 4,055 for the period 1703-73, i.e. more than 2/3rds of the total 5,650 for the century. Finegan himself is also more cautious in his commentary, noting that the registered converts between 1752 and 1773 come at three times the rate of those in the previous half-century, though the penal laws were coming into desuetude; but also pointing out that there were only 95 in the period 1790-99 (‘ scarcely a dozen … after the year 1792 ’) and imputing this to the fact that the penal laws were then ‘ in abeyance ’. Surely this leaves only 1,500 for the period 1773–90?
42 See, e.g. in this connection, Stewart, J.H., ‘The fall of the Bastille on the Dublin stage’, R.S.A.I. Jn., 86 (1954), pp. 78–91 Google Scholar; and ‘The French revolution on the Dublin stage, 1790-94’, ibid., xci (1961), pp. 183–92.
43 ‘The personnel of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen ’, I.H.S., ii (1940–1), pp. 12–53; ‘United Irish plans of parliamentary reform, 1793’, ibid., iii (1942–3), pp. 39–59; and ‘Proceedings of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen’, Anal. Hib., xvii (1949), pp. 1–143.