The Act Of Union The causes, contexts, and consequences of the Act of Union DÁIRE KEOGH & KEVIN WHELAN, Editors Contributors Include: Nicholas Robinson; Claire Connolly; James Livesy; Thomas Bartlett; James Kelly; Willa Murphy; Allan Macinnes; Elizabeth Dougherty; Ruan O'Donnell; Patrick Geoghegan; Gillian O'Brien; Dáire Keogh; Daniel Mansergh.

This book offers a much needed reappraisal of one of the pivotal moments in the evolution of Anglo-Irish relations, which still has constitutional, political and cultural echoes today. Despite its acknowledged importance, remarkably little has been published on this topic over the last quarter century. This collection of essays surveys the Union within a long term and comparative perspective. It explores the earlier (1707) Union with Scotland, the circumstances leading to its passing in Ireland in 1800, and the enduring effects - political, economic, and cultural -which flowed from it.

The Mighty Wave: The 1798 Rebellion in Wexford DÁIRE KEOGH & NICHOLAS FURLONG, EDITORS Contributors include: Kevin Whelan; Nicholas Furlong; L.M. Cullen; Thomas Graham National Military Planning of 1798 ;Daniel Gahan; Brian Cleary ; Dáire Keogh: Anna Kinsella and Thomas Bartlett

The Rebellion of 1798 was the culmination of many factors, national and international, in which thousands of men and women chose armed force as their only option. The reasons and simulations leading to that choice were complex. This collection of essays offers a fresh look and interpretation at those factors and the Rebellion itself in Wexford, where ordinary people, goaded to ferocity, 'swept o'er the land like a mighty wave'.

The Women of 1798 DÁIRE KEOGH & NICHOLAS FURLONG, Editors Contributors include: Mary Helen Thuente: John Beatty; Nancy J. Curtin; John Gray ; Thomas Bartlett; Ruan O'Donnell; John D. Beatty; Kevin O'Neill; Eleanor Burgess; Maureen Murphy; Anna Kinsella.

No aspect of the 1798 rebellion has been so neglected as that of the women's role in the tumult of that year. This volume addresses this neglect, bringing a new light to bear on the subject and showing the women in their many roles, not alone as symbol, model, victim and observer, but as activist and combatant in a political cause.

Reviews

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Independent.
This valuable collection of eight essays is the first scholarly contribution to the theme of women's involvement in the events of 1798. In a short review it is impossible to give anything like an adequate account of the wealth of, often startling, first-hand information contained in this remarkable collection. Warmly welcomed'

James Doan, Irish Literary Supplement.
'... it covers a whole spectrum, from women in folktales and ballads about the rebellion, to historical accounts of Catholic and Protestant women in the events of that year, to evidence in courts martial and subsequent narratives by female survivors ... Though most of these accounts focus on women in supporting roles - as mother, sister or sweetheart of United Irishman - their involvement in all aspects of the rising has been reclaimed in this fine collection of essays'
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