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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian McBride |
| ISBN: | 0198206429 9780198206422 |
| OCLC Number: | 38504261 |
| Description: | 274 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Eighteenth-Century Ireland -- Pt. I. The Genius of Their Religion. 2. The Reign of the New Light. 3. 'The Rattling of Dry Bones': Seceders and Covenanters. 4. Religion and Radical Ideology -- Pt. II. The Superior Diffusion of Political Information Among Them. 5. The Imperial Crisis, 1775-1783. 6. The Failure of Reform, 1783-1785 -- Pt. III. Sincere and Enlightened Republicans. 7. The United Irishmen. 8. The Dynamics of Rebellion: Ulster in 1798. 9. Conclusion: Presbyterian Radicalism in Irish History. App. Presbyterian Ministers and Probationers Suspected of Involvement in the 1798 Rebellion. |
| Responsibility: | I.R. McBride. |
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the best and most detailed study yet on Ulster Presbyterian radicalism ... offers timely warnings against the romantic and idealised versions of 1798 which were offered up in the bicentenary celebrations. Stephen Howe, New Statesman and Society I. R. McBride ... has made an invaluable contribution to Irish historiography by explaining how it was that their religious preoccupations allowed or even encouraged a significant proportion of Ulster's Dissenting ministers at that period to adopt -- and to inculcate in their congregations -- radical political stances. At the same time, he is careful to point out that concurrent social and economic factors are essential to explaining the movements thus sanctified R. V. Comerford, Times Literary Supplement analytical, fair-minded, carefully non-polemical and generally excellent book. For something like two centuries, the study of their history, with a strong emphasis on theological matters, has been a feature of the self-understanding of the Irish Presbyterian clergy. it is not the least of Ian McBride's achievements that he has now linked this historiography, distinguished by the work of scholars such as Dr John Barkley and Dr Finlay Holmes, to the mainstream of history-writing on Ireland. R. V. Comerford, Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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- Ireland -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
- Presbyterians -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History -- 18th century.
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Politics and government.
- Christianity and politics -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
- Radicalism -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
- Ireland -- History -- 1760-1820.
- Presbyterianisme.
- Radicalisme.
- Republikanisme.
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