Partners in revolution : the United Irishmen and France / Marianne Elliott.
By: Elliott, Marianne.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998Description: xx, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0300043023.Subject(s): Ireland -- History -- 1691-DDC classification: 941.507Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 941.507 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00076266 |
Bibliography: (pages 373-402) and index.
Part I. 1791-1795: The United Irishmen: Formation and Transformation -- Reform to Republicanism: the eighteenth-century background -- Defenderism and the Protestant Backlash -- The cause of the French -- Part II. 1796-1798: United Irish Embassy to France -- 1796: Tone, the directory and Bantry Bay -- 1797: Year of lost opportunity -- Part III: 1798: 'Who's to blame?' -- Rebellion -- Invasion -- Part IV: 1799-1815: Society in Exile -- 1799-1801: Coping with defeat -- 1802-1803: Conspiracy to Rebellion: Despard and Emmet -- 1803-1815: Last of the Wild Geese -- Conclusion: The making of the myth.