Acts of Union
Subtitle: the causes, contexts, and consequences of the Act of Union
By: Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, editors.
Contributors: Keogh, Dáire.; Whelan, Kevin, 1958-
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- The Union, 1800.; Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The other within: Ireland, Britain and the Act of Union / Kevin Whelan; title: The making of the Union / Patrick Geoghegan; title: The Acts of Union: its origins and background / James Kelly; title: Union failed, union accomplished: the Irish union of 1703 and the Scottish union of 1707 / Allan Macinnes; title: Acts of union and disunion: Ireland in Atlantic and European contexts / James Livesey; title: Camden and the move towards union, 1795-1798 / Gillian O'Brien; title: The union and the importance of public opinion / Daniel Mansergh; title: Marriage against inclination: the union and caricature / Nicholas Robinson; title: Catholic responses to the Act of Union / Dìre Keogh; title: Writing the union / Claire Connolly; title: A queen of hearts or an old maid?: Maria Edgeworth's fictions of union / Willa Murphy; title: Mr and Mrs England: the Act of Union as national marriage / Jane Elizabeth Dougherty; title: The union and internal security, 1798-1799 / Ruán O'Donnell; title: Britishness, Irishness, and the Act of Union / Thomas Bartlett.