A Flame Now Quenched Rebels & Frenchmen In Leitrim: 1793-1798

'A fine study with an exemplary apparatus... A Flame Now Quenched represents a significant addition to the publications which have marked the bicentenary of 1798.'
- Daire Keogh, Studies

The Irish rebellion of 1798 comprised a scattered seri...

Belmont Castle, or Suffering Sensibility

Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in 1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much more than a mere youthful liter...

The State of Ireland

'Arthur O'Connor was the most important conduit between French republicanism and Irish political radicalism in the late 1790s ... His State of Ireland, published in 1798, created a distinctively Irish language of radical democracy out of French sources...

The United Irishman

The 1790s, coloured by revolutions in France and North America, were to see the birth of republicanism in Ireland and the emergence of radical Presbyterianism in the north. The decade is increasingly being considered as one of the most formative in modern...