Dr Andrew Holmes Lecturer in Modern Irish History Ireland, 1775-1800 Dr Andrew Holmes Lecturer in Modern Irish History
I. Interpreting c18 Ireland Polarization & the ‘hidden Ireland’ The Anglo-Irish elite Kingdom or colony? Europe and the Atlantic World Ancien régime and confessional state
II. The 1798 Rebellion Causes: long-term trends vs. short-term events? A peasant uprising? A civil war? A religious war? An assertion of republican and Enlightened ideals? What if the rebellion had succeeded?
III. Non-rebels 1. Defence & counter-insurgency British Fencible units, Irish Militia (1793), yeomanry (Oct. 1796) Spies and informers 2. Catholic Church Prelates and priests ‘The French Disease’ 3. Popular protestant loyalism Why County Armagh? Genuinely popular or injected from above?
IV. Memory and commemoration 1798-1850: repudiation and recovery Faith and Fatherland: Father Patrick Kavanagh Ulster Presbyterians: memory and forgetting Centenary (1898) and bicentenary (1998)