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Searc's Web Guide to 18th Century Ireland
Chronology
1704 Further Penal Codes enacted; Catholics barred from voting,
being educated in Ireland, entering the law and the military.
1714 7% of Irish land now held by Catholics.
1775 American War of Independence inspires unrest in Ireland.
Henry Grattan becomes leader of the 'Patriot' party
in the Irish Parliament.
1782 'Grattan's Parliament' persuades the British Government to declare Irish legislative independence.
1792 The egalitarian United Irishmen founded in Belfast.
1795 Foundation of the Orange Order.
1796 French fleet arrived in Bantry Bay with Wolfe Tone.
1796-98 United Irishmen plan the 1798 rising.
1798 Arrest of Leinster Directory of United Irishmen in March.
Arrest and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in May.
Wexford rising and Battle of Vinegar Hill in June. Death of Wolfe Tone in November. Thirty thousand people died during the 1798 Rising.
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People and Texts
Anonymous Mid-Eighteenth Century
Charles Wogan (1698-1754)
Cornelius Nary (1660-1738)
George Kelly (1686-1750)
Francis Alison (1705-1779)
John Zephaniah Holwell (1711-1798)
Charles Lucas (1713-1771)
Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1834)
James O'Coigley (1761-1798)
Edward Hay (1761-1826)
Arthur O'Connor (1763-1852)
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1764-1798)
Thomas Russell (1767-1803)
Anonymous The Convict of Clonmel Circa.1750's
Aodh Buidhe MacCruitín (1670-1755)
James Porter (1753-1798)
William Drennan (1754-1820)
James Orr (1770-1816)
Personal Sketches of Sir Jonah Barrington (1827)
Edmund Burke and Charles Lucas
Mary Barber (1690-1745)
George Berkeley (1685-1753) Biography of the philosopher. Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Biography of the philosopher and statesman. Burke's Speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775.
Brian Merriman (1747-1805)
Biography and bibliography of the Irish language poet including the text of his epic poem The Midnight Court.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
This is a large site on the novelist. Bibliography of works about Tristram Shandy.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
This is an extensive site on Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. Swift's biography. Swift's Selected Poetry and a selection of Swift's Pamphlets and poems.
Bibliography of Irish Literature (1789-1840)
Useful for bibliographies of works by Irish and English language authors of the period.
The 1798 Rising
Furness House, Naas, Co. Kildare
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent site, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English).