Title: Acts of Union : the causes, contexts, and consequences of the Acts of Union /
Authors: Keogh, Dáire.; Whelan, Kevin.; Whelan, Kevin, 1958-
Publisher: Four Courts Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Ireland History; Ireland Relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Relations Ireland.; Ireland Foreign relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Foreign relations Ireland.
Contents: The other within: Ireland, Britain and the Act of Union / Kevin Whelan -- The making of the Union / Patrick Geoghegan -- The Acts of Union: its origins and background / James Kelly -- Union failed, union accomplished: the Irish union of 1703 and the Scottish union of 1707 / Allan Macinnes -- Acts of union and disunion: Ireland in Atlantic and European contexts / James Livesey -- Camden and the move towards union, 1795-1798 / Gillian O'Brien -- The union and the importance of public opinion / Daniel Mansergh -- Marriage against inclination: the union and caricature / Nicholas Robinson -- Catholic responses to the Act of Union / Dìre Keogh -- Writing the union / Claire Connolly -- A queen of hearts or an old maid?: Maria Edgeworth's fictions of union / Willa Murphy -- Mr and Mrs England: the Act of Union as national marriage / Jane Elizabeth Dougherty -- The union and internal security, 1798-1799 / Ruán O'Donnell -- Britishness, Irishness, and the Act of Union / Thomas Bartlett.