1st Edition

Ireland in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1805, Part I, Volume 3

By Harry T Dickinson Copyright 2013

    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.

    An Act for the Removing and Preventing All Doubt which have Arisen, or Might Arise, concerning the Exclusive Rights of the Parliament and Courts of Ireland (1783), in Th e Statutes at Large [England] (1786) -- A Letter to Henry Flood, Esq. on the Present State of Representation in Ireland (1783) -- Francis Dobbs, Th oughts on the Conduct and Continuation of the Volunteers of Ireland (1783) -- An Address to the Dungannon and Leinster Volunteer Delegates on the Matter of Parliamentary Reform (1783) -- A Reform of the Irish House of Commons (1783) -- Arguments to Prove the Interposition of the People to be Constitutional and Strictly Legal (1783) -- [W. W. Seward], Th e Rights of the People Asserted (1783) -- [Dr Patrick Duigenan], Th e Alarm: or, An Address to the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy of the Church of Ireland (1783) -- All’s Well: A Reply to the Author of Th e Alarm (1783) -- John Keogh, Th oughts on Equal Representation (1784) -- [Peter Burrowes], Plain Arguments in Defence of the People’s Absolute Dominion over the Constitution (1784) -- Andrew Doria, A Letter to the Volunteers, upon the Subject of a Parliamentary Reform (1784) -- John Jebb, Letters Addressed to the Volunteers of Ireland, on the Subject of a Parliamentary Reform (1784) -- Capel Molyneux, A Warm Appeal to the Freemen of Ireland (1784) -- [Charles Francis Sheridan], Free Th oughts upon the Present Crisis (1785) -- [ John Hely-Hutchinson] A Letter fr om the Secretary of State to the Mayor of Cork (1785) -- A Series of Letters Addressed to the Volunteers of Ireland (1785) -- Thoughts on the Kingdom of Ireland, Written in the Year 1785 ([c. 1785]) -- The Utility of an Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1787) -- An Act to Prevent Tumultuous Risings and Assemblies, in Th e Statutes at Large (1787) -- An Address to the Independent Members of the House of Commons of Ireland on the Question of Establishing a Regency in this Kingdom (1789) -- Common Sense, in Vindication of his Excellency the Marquis of Buckingham (1789) -- Editorial Notes.