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From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840
From Patriots to Unionists Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism 16601840 Author:Jacqueline Hill This is the first full-length study of the Protestant middle-class Patriots of Dublin, who, in the eighteenth-century, made up the largest concentration of Protestants in Ireland (c.70,000). Freemen of the guilds alone--who were entitled to a parliamentary vote--were almost as numerous as the entire landed class. Hill charts the slow and difficu... more »lt progress of these merchants, master craftsmen, and shopkeepers, from Patriotism in the eighteenth century to a Unionist position in the nineteenth, throwing light on all subsequent Irish history, and filling an important gap in the historiography of Unionism.« less