Anglo‐Irish Politics, 1680–1728: The Correspondence of the Brodrick Family of Surrey and County Cork. Volume One: 1680–1714. Edited by DavidHayton and MichaelPage. (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 15.) Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2019. x, 340 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119564096.

Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career. Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The book includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.

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John A. Phillips (ed.), Computing parliamentary history: George III to Victoria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. vi + 146 pp. ISBN 0-7486- 0488-X. £12.95

History and Computing ◽

10.3366/hac.1996.8.3.185 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 185-185

Author(s):

Edmund M. Green

Keyword(s):

Parliamentary History ◽

George Iii

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Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016

10.1093/oso/9780198864486.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Cultural History ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Postcolonial Studies ◽

Classical Literature ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Classical Culture ◽

Significant Figures ◽

Historical Past ◽

Irish Politics

This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, was almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation’s history and an event that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and this volume highlights an unexplored element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reference to, reliance on, and tensions with classical Greek and Roman models. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models; the intersection of Irish literature with scholarship in Classics and Celtic Studies; the use of classical allusion to articulate political inequalities across hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and class; meditations on the Northern Irish conflict through classical literature; and the political implications of neoclassical material culture in Irish society. As the only country colonized by Britain with a pre-existing indigenous heritage of expertise in classical languages and literature, Ireland represents a unique case in the fields of classical reception and postcolonial studies. This book opens a window on a rich and varied dialogue between significant figures in Irish cultural history and the Greek and Roman sources that have inspired them, a dialogue that is firmly rooted in Ireland’s historical past and continues to be ever-evolving.

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