Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism.(Book Review)

Stephen Small. Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 307. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-925779-5.

Years ago J. C. Beckett remarked on the congestion in the study of the last quarter of eighteenth-century Ireland, and the relative neglect of the previous three quarters. It cannot be said that the imbalance (found also in eighteenth-century English history) has as yet been rectified. The scholar who ventures into the already well-tilled field of the closing decades of the period does so at his or her ...

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