Series: Ideas in Context

Moving beyond binary nationalist and unionist narratives of nineteenth-century Irish history, this study instead explores political thought through ideological battles over government. Drawing on neglected pamphlets, political tracts and polemic newspapers, Colin Reid reveals how Irish protagonists—unionists and anti-unionists, Catholic Emancipationists, Repealers, Tories, Fenians, and federalists—clashed over the meaning of representation, sovereignty and the British connection. Reid traces how competing...

Moving beyond binary nationalist and unionist narratives of nineteenth-century Irish history, this study instead explores political thought through ideological battles over government. Drawing on neglected pamphlets, political tracts, and polemic newspapers, Colin Reid reveals how Irish protagonists—unionists and anti-unionists, Catholic Emancipationists, Repealers, Tories, Fenians, and federalists—clashed over the meaning of representation, sovereignty, and the British connection. Reid traces how competing...