Week 2

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Topics

The Act of the Union
Irish Society and Economy Before the Famine

Tutorial

Introduction

Essential Reading

Foster, Roy, 'Theme-parks and Histories', in The Irish Story: Telling tales and making it up in Ireland (London, 2001), pp. 23Ð36.

Week 2 Lecture Outlines
The Act of the Union

1. Background and Meaning of Union
2. Implementation of the Union
3. Evaluating the Union

• G. Bolton, The Passing of the Irish Act of Union: A Study in Parliamentary Politics (Oxford, 1966)
• P. Geoghan, The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics, 1798-1801 (New York, 1999)
• D. Keogh and K. Whelan (eds) Acts of Union: the causes, contexts and consequences of the Act of Union (Dublin, 2001).
• L. Kennedy and D. Johnson, 'The Union of Ireland and Great Britain, 1801-1921', in D. G. Boyce and A. O'Day (eds) The Making of Modern Irish History (London, 1996).

William Pitt Castlereagh Compensation

Cornwallis George III Catholic Emancipation

William Pitt

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Irish Economy Before the Famine

1. Population
2. Economic Trends
3. Towards a crisis?

• C. O Grada, Ireland: A New Economic History (Oxford, 1994)
• J. Mokyr, Why Ireland Starved (London, 1983)
• T. Guinnane, The Vanishing Irish (Princeton, 1997).
• W. Adams, Ireland and the Irish Emigration (New Haven, 1932)

Demography
Thomas Malthus
House of Commons Select Committee on Emigration in 1827


Turf-Market Dublin