Title: Irish pamphlets c. 1700-1850
Description: Collection contains "popular literature of the early stages of Ireland's campaign for Parliamentary Reform and the first appearance of the Catholic Question. The contents of these series and monographs depicts the mutually influential currents of agrarian, economic, social, and cultural change which affected the national process." It also contains "personal correspondence, parliamentary proceedings, journalistic and committee reports, and creative writing, provid[ing] insight into such issues as the connection between the Volunteer movement and the struggle for Catholic emancipation; the significance of land policy and structure in rural Ireland; and the influence of nutritional and educational guidelines stipulated by various societies upon the lifestyles of the Irish poor."
Subjects: History, Pamphlets, Catholic Church, Catholic University of America. Library
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century