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| Titre : | Playing Catholic against Protestant : British intervention in Catholic Relief in Ireland, 1778 (2013) |
| Auteurs : | Claire LYONS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 28 2013) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 115-135 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The aim of this paper is to introduce a hitherto un-acknowledged incidence of British parliamentary intervention in Gardiner's Relief Act (1778) in Ireland and to demonstrate how subscription-list analysis can be used as a tool to convey a political message. The central focus of this paper is unparalleled appearance of twenty members of Britain's governing political élite supporting via subscription A General History of Ireland, a polemical work by the Irish-Catholic antiquarian Sylvester O'Halloran published in London in June 1778. This paper will argue that the unprecedented appearance of a British political coterie in the subscription-list of this work was a deliberate intervention to encourage the passage of Gardiner's Relief Act in Ireland by demonstrating British parliamentary support for the measure via O'Halloran's subscription-list, and moreover, that the orchestration of this list took place within the imperial corridors of power |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Claire Lyons |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
