Table of Contents

The historiography of the Act of Union, James Kelly; the injured Lady and her British problem, Michael Brown; "A union for empire" - the Anglo-Irish Union as an imperial project, Thomas Bartlett; political Anglicanism in Ireland 1691-1801 - from the language of liberty to the language of union, Joseph Richardson; Ulster Presbyterianism and the passing of the Act of Union, Ian McBride; "Like a phoenix from its ashes" - united Irish propaganda and the Act of Union, Manuela Ceretta; Dublin Castle and the Act of Union, James Quinn; the failure of opposition, James Kelly; the Irish House of Commons 1799-1800 - a study in low politics, Patrick M. Geoghegan; Dublin after the Union - the age of the ultra Protestants, 1801-22, Jacqueline Hill; completing the union? the Irish novel and the moment of union, Claire Connolly.