The author shows how early 18th century Irish politics was affected by Jacobitism and how such leanings prevailed until the late 1790s when a new pragmatism began to accommodate Hanoverian integrationists whilst retaining Catholic ideals.
"Jacobitism was the ascendant political ideology in Irish Catholic society between the Battle of the Boyne and the outbreak of the French Revolution. This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II …
The Irish church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
by O'Brien, Gerard, Gwynn, Aubrey
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Kevin Rockett maps the history of Irish film censorship from its origins in the 1910s, through to the all-encompassing Censorship of Films Act 1923, the more liberal implementation of screening policies from the late 1960s onwards, and present day concerns about media proliferat…
The abbot of Iona in the late 17th century, Adomnán, a kinsman of the founder of St Columba, was one of the most remarkable thinkers of his era. The studies in this volume, rising from a conference held on Iona on the 13th centenary of Adomnán's death, celebrate his achievements.