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Food rioting is one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest. Practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early eighteenth century and the Great Famine, 1846-7, author Ja

Poynings' Law held that no Parliamentary act could be executed in Ireland until it had been approved by the British parliament in London. From its enactment in 1494 through the 16th and early 17th cen

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.