Irish Politics and Social Conflict in the Age of the American Revolution

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The principal sources on which this book is based are newspapers and the correspondence of statesmen, published and in manuscript. The Dublin newspapers were published three times a week and the Cork Hibernian Chronicle twice. They each consisted of four pages, most of which was taken up with non-Irish matter transcribed from English journals and with advertisements. News items and editorial comments concerning Ireland received little space by modern standards. Nevertheless, the newspapers are the most important single source for the Irish history of the time. They contain five types of information which are, substantially speaking, not available elsewhere: Irish House of Commons debates (the Irish Parliamentary Register reports only the debates from 1781 onward); news items: editorial comments; letters to the press (often published later as pamphlets); and the inserted addresses and resolutions of associations and public meetings. The most important manuscript correspondence is that of the British Cabinet minister responsible for Ireland (the Secretary of State for the Southern Department until March, 1782, and thereafter the Secretary of State for Home and Colonial Affairs) with the viceroy and chief secretary in Ireland. A quantity of additional correspondence has been published in the volumes of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The principal sources on which this book is based are newspapers and the correspondence of statesmen, published and in manuscript. The Dublin newspapers were published three times a week and the Cork Hibernian Chronicle twice. They each consisted of four pages, most of which was taken up with non-Irish matter transcribed from English journals and with advertisements. News items and editorial comments concerning Ireland received little space by modern standards. Nevertheless, the newspapers are the most important single source for the Irish history of the time. They contain five types of information which are, substantially speaking, not available elsewhere: Irish House of Commons debates (the Irish Parliamentary Register reports only the debates from 1781 onward); news items: editorial comments; letters to the press (often published later as pamphlets); and the inserted addresses and resolutions of associations and public meetings. The most important manuscript correspondence is that of the British Cabinet minister responsible for Ireland (the Secretary of State for the Southern Department until March, 1782, and thereafter the Secretary of State for Home and Colonial Affairs) with the viceroy and chief secretary in Ireland. A quantity of additional correspondence has been published in the volumes of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. BIBLIOGRAPHY 405 Pamphlets have been studied only to a limited extent, since many were published in the newspapers before appearing in pamphlet form. ABBREVIA TIONS Add. Mss. SP HO DEJ DEP FDJ FJ HC HJ HMC IPD Additional Manuscripts, British Museum State Papers, (London) Public Record Office Home Office Papers, (London) Public Record Office DublinEvening Journal Dublin Evening Post Faulkner's Dublin Journal Freeman's Journal Hibernian Chronicle Hibernian Journal Publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission Irish Parliamentary Debates (attributed to Sir Henry Cavendish, M.P.), Library of Congress. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES RECORDS British House of Lords Journals British House of Commons Journals Irish House of Lords Journals Irish House of Commons Journals The Parliamentary History of England . . . (London, 1814) The Parliamentary Register of the History of ... the House of Commons of Ireland, (Dublin, 1784 et seq.], I et seq. Irish Parliamentary Debates in manuscript (attributed to Sir Henry Cavendish, M.P.), Library of Congress. This BIBLIOGRAPHY 405 Pamphlets have been studied only to a limited extent, since many were published in the newspapers before appearing in pamphlet form. ABBREVIA TIONS Add. Mss. SP HO DEJ DEP FDJ FJ HC HJ HMC IPD Additional Manuscripts, British Museum State Papers, (London) Public Record Office Home Office Papers, (London) Public Record Office DublinEvening Journal Dublin Evening Post Faulkner's Dublin Journal Freeman's Journal Hibernian Chronicle Hibernian Journal Publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission Irish Parliamentary Debates (attributed to Sir Henry Cavendish, M.P.), Library of Congress. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES RECORDS British House of Lords Journals British House of Commons Journals Irish House of Lords Journals Irish House of Commons Journals The Parliamentary History of England . .. (London, 1814) The Parliamentary Register of the History of . .. the House of Commons of Ireland, (Dublin, 1784 et seq.), I et seq. Irish Parliamentary Debates in manuscript (attributed to Sir Henry Cavendish, M.P.), Library of Congress. This IRISH POLITICS AND SOCIAL CONFLICT source has been examined for the years 1777 through 1779, and for the discussion of the Tenantry...