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Abercorn, 7th Earl of (James Hamilton), 7–8, 135

absentee landlords, 135, 137, 157, 162, 167, 187

Acheson, Anne, 184–185, 200–201

Acheson, Arthur, 184, 197

Addison, Joseph, 45, 111–112, 118

Adventurer’s Act, 2–3

Aesop, 32, 95–96, 100–101

allegory, 18, 21–23, 29, 32–33, 36, 96–101, 103–106, 121–133, 169, 173, 175, 189, 190

national, 21–22

satiric, 22–23, 95–97, 128–129, 168–171, 189

ancient constitution, ideology of the, 36–37

Ancients versus Moderns controversy, 94–101, 122, 178.

Anderson, Benedict, 9–10, 46, 114–115

Anglicanism. See Church of England

Church of Ireland

Anne, Queen, 41, 45

Aravamudan, Srinivas, 166–167, 179–180

Aristophanes, 116

Atterbury, Francis, 96, 122

authorship, 87–89, 97, 190–193, 206–209

Bacon, Francis, 164–165, 173

bailouts, 59, 74–77, 172

Baker, Keith Michael, 155

Baltes, Sabine, 153

Bank of England, 1, 12, 40, 42–43, 44–45, 54, 59, 74–76, 85

Bank of Ireland, 4–5, 58–63, 68, 70, 74–89, 92–93, 108–109, 118–119, 135–136, 153–154

Barber, Mary, 205, 212

Barrier Treaty, 44

Barry, T. B., 49

Bathurst, Allen, 186

Beckett, J. C., 153

Benedict, Barbara, 191

Bentley, Richard, 96, 98–99

Berkeley, George, 4–5, 191–192

Berman, David, 57

Bibles, 31, 52, 65, 99, 104–105, 192–193

Bladen, Martin, 38–39, 94

Bodin, Jean, 14, 41, 46, 220n18

Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount of (Henry St. John), 43, 173, 201

bookbinding, 97–98, 138

book history. See history of the book booksellers, bookselling, and printers (English), 24, 26–29, 94–134, 139, 143, 147, 169–174, 179, 199–211

John Barber, 91, 99, 190, 192–193

William Bowyer, 24, 92, 123, 208–209

an-drew Crooke II, 53, 91

John Crooke, 52, 91

edmund Curll, 173–174, 199

John Dunton, 51

the English Stock, 96, 99–100

Lawton Gilliver, 199, 205, 207, 209

and King’s Printer patent (England), 99

Bernard Lintot, 203

Benjamin Motte, 91–92, 99, 121–123, 193, 199, 205, 207, 209–210

Andrew Tooke, 91, 99, 122

Benjamin Tooke, Jr., 91, 99–100, 122

Benjamin Tooke, Sr., 91, 99

Mary Tooke, 91

John Wilford, 205

booksellers, bookselling, and printers (Irish), 2, 19, 21–29, 33–36, 39, 46–47, 51–56, 60, 62–68, 90–95, 108, 121–123, 134–135, 138–142, 146–150, 162–167, 169–171, 174–176, 179–180, 190–197, 199–201, 206–211, 214

William Bladen, 52

Andrew Crooke II, 53, 91, 192

John Crooke, 52, 91

George Faulkner, 24, 27, 92, 122–123, 192–193, 200–201, 207–211

John Franckton, 51–52

George and Constantia Grierson, 191–193, 212

Guild of St. Luke’s, 52–53, 62, 67, 191

John Harding, 54, 80, 140–142, 146, 150, 176

Sarah Harding, 175–176

Thomas Hume, 80

John Hyde, 63, 92, 122–123

Sarah Hyde, 92

William Kearney, 51

and King’s Printer patent (Ireland), 38, 51–52, 192–193

Humphrey Powell, 51

Edward Waters, 55, 95, 176

Booth, Wayne, 20

Bosteels, Bruno, 37

Boulter, Hugh (primate of Ireland), 158, 202

boycotts, 26–27, 29–32, 39, 57–58, 134, 141, 148–149, 161

Boyle, Charles, 96

branding and marketing, 96–97, 190, 193, 214–216

Brantlinger, Patrick, 10

Brewer, John, 1, 42

Briscoe, John, 44

British empire, 1–2, 25–29, 54–56, 109–110, 113, 118, 122, 124, 127, 132, 166–169, 178, 207, 210. See also Great Britain

Britishness. See identity: British Brown, Laura, 179

Bullitt, John, 20

Burke, Helen, 32

Burnett, Gilbert, 41

Butler, Samuel, 116

cannibalism metaphor, 169–170, 172–173, 175–177, 180, 182, 185–186, 189

Canny, nicholas, 49

capitalism: agrarian, 22, 40–45, 61, 69, 73, 109, 120, 124, 169–170 (see also landed interest)

financial, 40–45, 63 (see also moneyed interest)

Caroline, Queen, 207

Carpenter, andrew, 51

Carroll, Clare, 118

Carteret, John (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), 150, 161, 185, 197

censorship, 14, 29, 46, 52–55, 110–111, 148, 205

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 17

Charles I, King, 143

Charles II, King, 52

Chartier, Roger, 18, 154

Child, Josiah, 81

Church of England, 43, 94, 104–106, 112, 163

Church of Ireland, 3, 16, 38, 57, 94, 152–154, 158–159, 163, 167, 177, 184, 194–195, 197–199

Cibber, Colley, 201, 203–204

Clarke, aidan, 49

Coghill, Marmaduke, 183, 187

coin. See currency

colonial discourse analysis. See postcolonial theory

colonialism, 4, 13–16, 21–22, 24, 26–29, 43, 45–46, 49–51, 83–84, 107, 123, 136, 148, 161, 166, 169, 184–185, 188, 211

and colonial nationalism, 50, 136, 172

and landlordism, 3, 168, 180. See also postcolonial theory

Company for the Plantation of Ireland, 52

Concordatum, 67–68

Congreve, William, 36

Conlon, Michael, 203

Connolly, S. J., 50, 57, 153

Conolly, William, 69

Copyright act, 52–53, 210

counter-enlightenment. See enlightenment, Irish

counterfeiting, 115–116, 118, 137, 142–143, 146, 149, 202–203

country ideology, 61, 72, 82, 84, 87, 137. See also landed interest; Monti

Cowan, Brian, 113

Cromwell, oliver, 114, 116, 118

Crow, Thomas, 155

Cullen, L. M., 6, 164–165

cultural capital, 10, 15, 27, 62–63, 93, 97, 107, 111, 149, 189, 193, 212. See also taste

cultural imperialism, 2, 13, 27–28, 46, 51, 108, 122–123, 133, 200, 211 See also culture industry

culture industry: British, 10, 17, 25, 90, 92, 94, 101, 106, 108, 110–111, 121, 123–124, 126, 133, 170, 200, 203

Irish, 17, 21–25, 28, 67–68, 94, 189, 203, 211, 216

currency, 1, 14–17, 19, 30–31, 37, 48, 56, 58, 60, 68–72, 80–83, 85, 88, 115–116, 118, 130–167, 174, 178, 191–192, 194, 196, 202

and american colonies, 161

and epistemology, 162–167

and identity, 58, 135–137, 152, 162–167. See also minting

custom. See memory, social

Darnton, Robert, 17

Davenant, Charles, 81

Davies, John, 36–37

Davis, Herbert, 63, 185

Dean, Jodi, 155

Deane, Seamus, 24

de Bolla, Peter, 178

Debt of the Nation (Ireland), 4–6, 23, 37–39, 54–55, 59, 62, 135, 137, 149, 168–170, 174, 180–181, 184–188, 190–191, 194–195

Declaratory act, 4, 6, 29, 37, 56–59, 61–62, 66, 70, 83–87, 93, 119–120, 150, 181–182

decolonization, 28, 107, 109, 111. See also colonialism

postcolonial theory Defoe, Daniel, 26, 67–68, 78, 102, 113, 126, 129

Delany, Mary, 212

Delany, Patrick, 197, 212

Derrida, Jacques, 104

Dickson, P. G. M., 75

Dissenters, 23, 42, 85, 104, 154, 198–199. See also Presbyterianism

Downie, J. a., 41

Dryden, John, 66, 173

Dunlevy, Mairead, 32

Dutch Republic, 44–45, 85, 195

East India Company, 26, 42, 45, 75

economics. See political economy

Egmont, 1st Earl of (John Perceval)

Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 23, 151, 161, 211

Elizabeth I, Queen, 47, 118

“English interest,”, 182–183, 196

Enlightenment, British, 9, 15–17, 92–93, 106–134, 155, 167

Enlightenment, Irish, 92–93, 108, 122, 124, 134

epistemology, 121–133, 136, 162–167

Exclusion Crisis, 42

famine, 170, 180, 184.

Faulkner, George. See under booksellers, bookselling, and printers (Irish)

Fauske, Christopher, 150

feminist criticism. See gender criticism

Ferguson, oliver, 180

financial revolution, english, 1, 11–13, 15, 28, 40, 43, 106, 108, 115, 117, 120, 124, 170, 178, 188. See also financial revolution, Irish

financial revolution, Irish, 3–4, 15, 29, 58. See also Debt of the nation

Monti

fiscal-military state, 1–2, 10, 12–14, 16, 22, 24, 28–29, 40, 42–43, 55, 71, 101–103, 107–109, 111, 116, 119, 123–127, 133, 170–171, 179

Ford, Charles, 31, 122

Forman, Charles, 173

Foster, Roy, 49

France, 44, 47, 78–79, 81, 155, 168, 177, 184

Gay, John, 67, 101, 113, 172–173, 186, 204, 206

Gee, Sophie, 115

gender criticism, 10–11, 170–171, 173–174, 179, 212–213

George I, King, 85, 146, 148, 151, 159

George II, King, 203

Gillespie, Raymond, 46

Glendinning, Victoria, 40

globalization, 215–216

Glorious Revolution, 40–43, 55, 101, 110–111, 113, 177, 181

Godolphin, Sidney, 45

Goux, Jean-Joseph, 14

Grand alliance of the League of augsburg, 44

Great Britain

—currency of (sterling), 1, 48, 69, 135–136, 151–152, 156–162, 165–167

—financial system of: exchequer, 143, Treasury, 40, 55, 178. See also Bank of England

—military of, 40, 159–160 (see also fiscal-military state)

—national debt of, 1, 3–4, 40, 43, 172–173, 178–179, 183, 186

—nationalism in, 9–10

—national security in, 41, 163 (see also fiscal-military state)

—political institutions in: crown, the, 9–10, 144, 150, 181–182, 193–194, 198, 201, 205

Parliament, 29, 37, 47–50, 57, 59, 75, 85–86, 144, 148, 158, 165, 181, 198

prime minister, 181, 183–184 (see also Walpole, Robert)

Privy Council, 159

—religion of, 103–106, 111. See also Church of England

Dissenters

Presbyterianism

Roman Catholicism

—revenue and taxation in, 1, 40, 43–45, 47–49, 124, 173, 178–179

Gresham’s Law, 151, 157–158, 160

Grierson, George and Constantia See under booksellers, bookselling, and printers (Irish)

Grimston, William Luckyn, 38–39, 94

Grub Street, 66–67, 173–174, 199–200, 203–204

Gunn, J. a. W., 154

Habermas, Jürgen, 45, 113, 172, 191

Hall, F. G., 61

Harth, Philip, 206–207

Hawes, Clement, 124–126, 179

Hayton, David, 187

Haywood, eliza, 174

Higgins, Ian, 41, 177

historical bibliography. See history of the book

history of the book: and The Battle of the Books, 90, 93, 95–101

and A Defence of English Commodities, 93–95, 101

and English publishing, 18, 45–47, 90–133

and Gulliver’s Travels, 90–93, 121–133

and Irish publishing, 2, 6, 18–19, 25, 51–56, 58–59, 62–68, 90–93, 108, 117–118, 121, 133, 138–142, 146–150, 162–167, 169–171, 174–176, 179–180, 190–197, 199–201, 206–211, 214

and A Modest Proposal, 168–189

and A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, 26–40, 55–56, 62, 94–95, 101

scatology and, 106–120

and A Tale of a Tub, 90, 93, 99–106

theory of, 17–19

Hobbes, Thomas, 41, 106, 220n18

Holland. See Dutch Republic

Holt, Douglas, 215

identity: Anglo-Irish, 4, 15, 23, 38, 54, 57, 94, 135, 152, 162, 166–167, 169–170

British, 9–14, 27–28, 53, 94, 114, 136, 152, 162, 166–167, 178, 204

Irish, 2, 6, 15, 23–24, 28, 58, 59, 68, 89, 135–136, 152, 193, 211, 214–216

Scots-Irish (Ulster Scots), 52. See also Protestant interest, Irish

Monti

imagined communities, 9–10, 12, 16, 19, 28, 32, 58, 62–63, 83, 100, 115, 136, 139, 170, 211, 214

imperialism. See colonialism

Great Britain

postcolonial theory

Importation act of 1739, 53, 92, 210

India, 26–27

Ingrassia, Catherine, 10–11, 67, 115

ink production, 97–98

Ireland

—banks, private, in, 70–71, 82, 151

—culture in. See under identity

—currency of, 60, 68, 70, 82, 134–167, 174, 191, 194, 196. See also Swift, Jonathan, works by: The Drapier’s Letters

—economic development in, 29–31, 61, 169–170, 174–177

—educational institutions in: Incorporated Society for Protestant Schools, 192

Trinity College Dublin, 47, 67

—financial system of, 159, 171–172, 180–188

exchequer, 143, 184

Treasury, 54–56, 62, 158, 180–182, 195

See also Bank of Ireland

Debt of the nation

Monti

—military in, 137, 159–160

—national debt of. See Debt of the nation

—national security in, 3, 6, 163, 195. See also Monti

—political institutions in: Commissioners of the Revenue, 150–151, 158–159, 160, 187

crown, the, 150, 158, 181–182, 185, 193–194

Lord Lieutenant (viceroy), 38, 143, 150, 160–161, 185–186, 196–197

Lord Justices, 160

Parliament, 2, 4, 6, 29–30, 37, 47–50, 53–54, 57, 59–62, 74, 76–80, 82–84, 86–87, 118–119, 135, 137, 143, 146, 150–151, 153, 158–159, 162–163, 165, 168–170, 176–177, 179–183, 185–189, 197–198

Privy Council, 30, 68, 141, 161, 183, 186–188, 194–195. See also Declaratory act

—religion in, 2–4, 23, 38, 46–47, 153–154. See also Church of Ireland

Dissenters

Presbyterianism

Protestant interest, Irish

Roman Catholicism

—revenue and taxation in, 1–4, 6, 14, 23, 29, 37–39, 48–49, 51, 55, 59, 62, 70, 74, 77, 83, 119, 133, 135, 137, 150–151, 158–159, 168–170, 176–177, 180–188, 195

—trade deficit of, 30–31, 179

“Irish interest,”, 183, 196

Irishness. See under identity

Irish Revival (Irish Renaissance), 191

irony, 20–23, 38, 168, 179–180, 184, 188–189, 195, 202

Irwin, John, 60, 87

Jacobites, 3–4, 44, 54–55, 86, 152, 159–160, 183–184, 196. See also James II, King

Roman Catholicism Jacobite War of 1689–1691, 144

James II, King, 9, 41–43, 86, 144–145

John, King, 47

Johns, adrian, 17, 107

Johnston-Liik, edith Mary, 154

joint stock companies, role of, 1

Joyce, James, 169

Kant, Immanuel, 154

Karian, Stephen, 104

Kelly, Anne Cline, 155

Kelly, James, 153

Kelly, Patrick, 49

Kendal, Duchess of (ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg), 151

Keough, Donald, 215

Kiberd, Declan, 214

Kiernan, V. G., 49

King, William (archbishop of Dublin), 5, 69, 75, 91, 158–159, 181–182

Knox, John, 145

Kramnick, Isaac, 43

landed interest, 40, 42–44, 60–62, 67, 69, 71–74, 78–79, 81–82, 84–85, 87, 136–138, 154–158, 188, 194

Latouche, William, 79

Latour, Bruno, 166

Law, John, 79. See also Mississippi Company

Lawrence, Richard, 30

Leavis, F. R., 20

Lecky, W. e. H., 7

Licensing act, 52, 116

linen, 34–36

literature, Anglo-Irish, 2, 6, 24, 28, 68, 89, 137, 162, 190–193, 208–209, 212–215

Lloyd, David, 51, 107

Lock, F. P., 41

Locke, John, 41, 61, 127–129

Longinus, 178

luxury, 187–189, 194. See also Ireland: revenue and taxation in

Lynch, Deidre Shauna, 10–11

Mah, Harold, 155

Mahony, Robert, 211

Malesherbes, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de, 154

Mandeville, Bernard, 171

“manufactures,”, 31

Marana, Giovanni, 173

Marlborough, Duke of, 45

Maruca, Lisa, 17, 31, 138

Marxism, 14

Massachusetts, 31, 50, 161

Maxwell, Henry, 81, 83

McDowell, Paula, 102

McDowell, R. B., 7

McLaverty, James, 199, 209

McMinn, Joseph, 49

Mell, Donald, 203–204

memory, social, 36–37, 47, 85

mercantilism, 152, 161

Milton, John, 118

minting, 135, 144–146, 150

homology of, with printing, 135–136, 138–142, 149, 201–202, 204

and Irish mint, 135, 142–143, 145, 149

Mississippi Company, 60, 79, 180

modernity and modernization, 24–25, 122–125, 129, 136, 156, 170, 208

Molesworth, Robert, 146–148

Molyneux, William, 39, 47, 50–51, 57, 61, 89, 91

money. See currency

money bill dispute of 1753, 5

moneyed interest, 40, 42–45, 60–62, 69, 71, 73, 81–82, 84, 87, 154, 173

Monti, 5–8, 15, 17, 22–24, 29, 45, 49, 54–56, 58–59, 61–62, 66, 68–70, 73–74, 76–77, 79, 82–85, 108, 120, 124, 133–137, 149, 152, 156, 158, 167–170, 176, 190–191, 195, 199

Moor, Roger, 145

Moxon, James, 34, 36

Moxon, Joseph, 27, 33–34, 66, 194

national debt, 1, 3–6, 10–11, 13–14, 40, 43–45, 169, 172–174, 178–179, 183–184, 186–188. See also Debt of the Nation netherlands. See Dutch Republic new criticism, 72

new economic criticism, 10–16, 67, 78, 115, 180

new england, 83–84, 161

nicholson, Colin, 10–13

nicolson, William (bishop of Londonderry), 31

nomos, 37, 41, 120

novel, 93, 121–122, 126–127, 129–130, 133, 191

oakleaf, David, 42, 228n119

ohlmeyer, Jane, 49

o’Regan, Philip, 61

ovid, 32–33, 36, 95

oxford, 1st Earl of (Robert Harley), 43

paper credit, 1, 10–12, 31, 68–74, 77–78, 81–82, 84–85, 88, 115, 118, 120

papermaking, 32, 36, 97–98, 175

papists. See Jacobites

James II, King

Roman Catholicism parody, 19, 64, 78, 93, 102, 106, 110, 114, 121, 133, 169, 175, 177, 189, 195, 212–213

Parsons, Jotham, 14, 144

Partition Treaty, 44

patriot discourse: British, 40

Irish, 2, 6–8, 10, 17, 19, 21, 24, 29–30, 32, 37, 39, 46, 54, 58, 61, 83, 87, 121, 135–136, 140, 146, 148–149, 174, 186, 193, 196, 204, 207–208, 211, 214

penal laws, Irish, 3, 153–154

Petty, William, 3, 81

Phiddian, Robert, 13, 103

Pilkington, Laetitia, 212

Pilkington, Matthew, 123, 194, 205, 209, 212

Pincus, Steven, 42

Plato, 103–104, 171

Pocock, J. G. a., 36–37, 155–156

politeness, ideology of, 93, 106–107, 109–118, 121, 139

political economy, 6–9, 15, 23, 29–31, 42, 58, 64, 81, 89, 135, 137, 162–167, 169–170, 174–177, 190–191, 193–199

political theology, 101, 127

political thought: British, 1–2, 36–37, 40–45, 73, 111

Irish, 1–8, 14–15, 46–51, 56–57, 61–62, 83–89, 139–162, 168–170, 180–188, 193–199

Pollard, Mary, 19, 46

Poovey, Mary, 164

Pope, Alexander, 67, 100–101, 113, 121, 172–174, 184–186, 194, 199–200, 203–204, 206–207, 209

postcolonial theory, 13–15, 17, 21–23, 29, 46, 72, 110–111, 124–126, 166–167, 179–180, 214–216

Presbyterianism, 3, 52, 104, 154

pretender. See Jacobites

James II Price, Leah, 17

print capitalism, 9–10, 16

print culture: British, 18, 186, 191

Irish, 2, 6–10, 12–13, 15–19, 21–25, 150, 162–167, 169–170, 174–176, 191, 194–195, 213–214. See also booksellers, bookselling, and printers (english)

booksellers, bookselling, and printers (Irish)

history of the book

printing, history of, 34, 98–99

Probyn, Clive, 26, 190

Protestant interest, Irish, 3–4, 29, 47–48, 50, 55, 61–62, 67, 85, 95, 135, 150, 152, 154, 172, 174, 177, 180, 184. See also identity: Anglo-Irish

Monti public credit, 10, 12

public opinion, 6–8, 14, 18–19, 23, 26, 29, 38–39, 45–46, 51, 54–57, 60, 62, 84, 102, 111, 126, 133–134, 136, 146, 148–149, 150, 153–155, 159, 170

public sphere, British, 10, 45, 101–102, 106, 110–121, 126, 133, 142, 169–170, 172, 191, 200, 202–203

public sphere, Irish, 7, 24, 54, 56, 62, 64, 67–68, 77, 83, 87, 89, 118, 120, 134–136, 148–151, 153–155, 169–170, 176, 190–191, 200, 202–203, 213–214, 216. See also Habermas, Jürgen

publishing. See booksellers, bookselling, and printers (English)

booksellers, bookselling, and printers (Irish)

history of the book

print capitalism

print culture

printing, history of

Quakers, 153

Quilligan, Maureen, 22

Rashid, Salim, 163

Rawson, Claude, 180

realism, 120, 122, 126, 128–130, 133

Reformation, Protestant, 2–3

republics and republicanism, 3–4, 24, 44, 55, 116, 156, 177–178

rhetoric, 37–38, 57, 62, 64, 89, 108, 113, 116, 170, 173, 175, 179, 188

Rodino, Richard, 129

Rogers, Pat, 72

Roman Catholicism, 2–4, 23, 49, 80–81, 85, 104–105, 141, 152–154, 157, 159–160, 177, 183

Rowley, Hercules, 84, 86–88, 153–154

Royal Africa Company, 42

Royal Society, 125, 127

“rump, the,” 116, 118

Ryder, Michael, 61–62, 82

Sacramental Test for Dissenting Protestants, 198–199. See also Dissenters

Said, Edward, 13, 46, 200

satire, 12–13, 19–24, 68–74, 82, 92–94, 99–103, 106–133, 138, 154–155, 168–172, 194–196, 200, 202

financial, 12–13, 68–74, 82, 108, 120, 206–207

Horatian, 72

Juvenalian, 72

Menippean, 102–103, 124–125

scatological, 18, 36, 78, 93–94, 100, 106–121, 205

Scriblerian, 72, 101–102, 113–116, 172–174, 177, 187, 200–201, 203. See also allegory

irony

parody

scientific revolution, 22, 123–125, 127, 132

Scotland, 27, 50, 54–55, 203–204

Scriblerians (Scriblerus Club), 72, 101–102, 113–116, 172–174, 177–179, 182, 186–188, 199, 200–201, 203. See also Gay, John

Pope, Alexander

Secret service. See Concordatum Seven Years War, 168

Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of (anthony ashley Cooper), 110–114

Sher, Richard, 92, 192

Sheridan, Thomas, 197

Sherman, Sandra, 10–11, 78

Simms, J. G., 50

Simpson, Ralph, 99

Siskin, Clifford, 8–9, 107

South Sea act, 56, 70

South Sea Bubble, 4, 6, 16, 59–60, 63, 65, 68–77, 79, 83, 89, 93, 108, 116, 120, 134, 172, 180–181, 204

South Sea Company, 44, 56, 58, 60, 70–71, 73–77, 82, 85, 109, 171–172, 204

Southwell, Edward, 187

sovereignty, 2, 6, 9–10, 50–51, 57, 104, 125–127, 214–216

and american colonies, 50–51, 168

and bookselling/printing prerogative, 6, 14, 16, 29, 40, 45, 52, 108, 125–126, 131, 133–135, 139, 142, 150, 211–212, 191

and Britain, 36–37, 43–45, 74, 87, 95, 111

and currency/minting, 15–16, 58, 131–132, 135–136, 139–140, 142–144, 149, 150, 156, 162–163, 165, 167

and Jacques Derrida, 104

and epistemology, 125–127, 131–134, 162–163, 165, 167

and Ireland, 23, 26, 28–29, 36–37, 39–40, 47, 50–51, 57–58, 61, 68, 74, 84, 86–87, 95, 108, 110, 120, 133, 135–136, 146, 168–169, 171, 181, 187, 189, 191, 207, 211, 214–216

and post-colonial theory, 13–15, 28–29, 51, 111, 125–127

Spain, 44, 168

Speck, W. A., 42

Spenser, edmund, 49, 118

Sprat, Thomas, 128

Stamp act, 53

Stationer’s Company of London, 33, 51–52, 96

Stearne, John (bishop of Clogher), 75, 76

Steele, Richard, 45, 111–112, 114

“stuff(s),” 17, 32, 35, 139, 147–148. See also papermaking

textiles

weavers and weaving Sundell, Kirsten, 194

Sunderland, Duke of, 45

Swift, Jonathan, works by: An Account of the Short Life, Sudden Death, and Pompous Funeral of Michy Windy-bank, 119