New perspectives on the penal laws
By: edited by John Bergin ... [et al.] = eagarthóirí John Bergin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Series: Eighteenth-century Ireland. Special issue -- no. 1; Eighteenth-century Ireland -- no. 1.
Publisher: Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng; gle
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780956906205
Subjects: Catholics; Congresses; Religious Dissenters; Religious discrimination; Law and legislation; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Papers originally presented at the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society's annual conference held in University College Dublin in Sept. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editorial in English and Irish.
Table of contents: title: The historiography of the penal laws / James Kelly; title: The causes of the penal laws : paradoxes and inevitabilities / John Morrill; title: Accommodations with the Protestant State and Church : a comparative study of respective Dutch and Irish Catholic experiences / Declan M. Downey; title: James Arbuckle : a Whig critic of the penal laws / Richard Holmes; title: Catholic politics in the penal era : Father Sylvester Lloyd and the Delvin Address of 1727 / Ian McBride; title: 'My repeated troubles' : Dr. James Gallagher (bishop of Raphoe, 1725-37) and the impact of the penal laws / Ciarán MacMurchaidh; title: The penal laws in Irish vernacular literature / Vincent Morley; title: An urban community and the penal laws : Limerick 1690-1830 / Eamon O'Flaherty; title: The renewal of Catholic religious culture in eighteenth-century Dublin / Cormac Begadon; title: Between toleration and preservation : the popery laws and Irish Anglicanism, 1782-1808 / Tadhg O'Sullivan.