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Index

Akenson, Donald, 211n5

Allen, Grant, 173–74, 178

Anglo-Irish, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 113, 118, 123, 126, 129, 212n8

and Edgeworth, 19, 22, 25–27, 30, 33, 37, 39, 45, 46, 51–52, 211n6, 213n16

and the Dublin Parliament (“Grattan’s Parliament”), 30, 31

Armitage, W. H. G., 111

Arnold, Arthur, 169, 219n3

Arnold, Matthew, 124

on copyright, 171

on Irish land law, 2, 171–72, 207, 214n3

on property in land, 2, 207

Backus, Margot, 14, 212n8

Bagehot, Walter, The English Constitution, 140, 166

Bailkin, Jordanna, 16, 168, 169, 219n2

bard figures, 28–29

Bentham, Jeremy, 56–57, 103–5, 109, 117

Bentley, Lionel, 219n5

Berol, Laura, 135

Besant, Annie, 160, 219n9

Bessborough Commission of 1879, 127

Bew, Paul, 215n10

Bhabha, Homi, 45, 213–14n19

Biagini, Eugenio, 16

Bigelow, Gordon, 14, 211n4 “Black ’47.” See famine

Blackstone, William: on legal status of wives, 150–51

on property, 90, 98, 99, 215n3, 216n4

Bolton, G. G., 31

Boorstin, Daniel, 216n4

Boyce, D. George, 30, 115, 213n10

Brantlinger, Patrick, 141, 144

Brehon law, 124, 128, 215n10

Bright Clauses, 129

Brontë, Charlotte, 110

Jane Eyre, 102–3

Bull, Phillip, 127, 215n10

bundle of rights, paradigm of property.

See property: bundle of rights, theory of

Burgess, Miranda, 212n3

Burke, Edmund: and Thomas Carlyle, 98

and Samuel T. Coleridge, 93, 97, 101

on custom, 21, 37, 45

and Maria Edgeworth, 21, 22, 24–26, 34–35, 37, 39, 42, 45, 53, 56

and free market, 42

on French Revolution, 21, 24, 50

nation as property, 21, 24, 25, 26, 32, 34–35, 39, 53, 56, 98, 105, 138

and Thomas Paine, 21, 105

on property as organic community, 93, 97, 98, 100

Butler, Marilyn: on Maria Edgeworth, 19, 23, 39, 212n1, 213n17, 214n23

on Robert Lovell Edgeworth, 19, 39, 212n1

on Ennui, 39, 213n17

on Walter Scott, 23

Butt, Isaac, 9, 124

Cahalan, James M., 213n13

Cain, P. J., 221n20

Campbell, George: and contract, 129

and current criticism, 130–31

and William Gladstone, 128

and India, 128, 128–31

and Land Acts, 128–29

and John Stuart Mill, 128, 130

Cardwell Act (1860), 218n21

Carlisle, Janice, 77, 214n3, 215n8

Carlyle, Thomas: “Chartism,” 99

and feudalism, 98–99

and land as property, 106, 113

and Adam Smith, 98

Chartism: and Thomas Carlyle, 99

and constitutional rights, 217n17

and land reform, 109–13, 120

and John Stuart Mill, 79

and natural rights, 110–12, 217n17

Chartist Land Company, 111

Clark, Samuel, 218n21

Cleary, Joseph, 14

Coercion Acts, in Ireland, 1–2, 87, 181

Cohen, William A., 144

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: and Blackstone, 90

and Burke, 93, 97, 101

and Maria Edgeworth, 89–90

and property as community, 89–90, 93, 97, 100, 101

Colley, Linda, 216n10

commodity fetishism, 105

commons land, 27, 29, 99, 112, 208

and public domain, 170

restoration of, 168, 169, 170

Commons Preservation Society, 169. See also Shaw-Lefevre, John George

Connolly, Claire, 212n2

Connolly, S. J., 214n21

conscription, 28

copyright: as absolute, individual property, 99–100, 173, 219n6

as estate, 110

international, 170, 177, 178

and land law, 99–100, 167, 168–77, 179

and public good, 167, 171, 173, 174, 176, 197

and railway law, 173, 175

1774 debates, 95, 99, 215n3

and spatial models of property, 95–96, 215n3

Corbett, Mary Jean, 14, 213n14, 219n7

on Mill, 214n3

on the national tale, 24

on Trollope, 161, 218n1

Corn Laws, repeal of, 192, 195–96, 201, 220n13, 221n18, 221n21

Crofters Act of 1886, 168, 219n1

Crossman, Virginia, 211n5

Davis, Thomas Osborne: on Irish autarky, 118, 119, 122, 123

on Irish language, 121

on property in land, 118

Davitt, Michael, 129, 215n10

Deane, Seamus, 14, 35

Deasey’s Act (1860), 218n21

Defenders, 212n7

Dewey, Clive, 215n6, 219n1

Dicey, Edward, 175, 219n6, 221n16

Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son, 138

Great Expectations, 106–10

Dickson, David, 212n4

Divorce Act, 219n6

Dolin, Tim, 189, 220n10

Dougherty, Jane Elizabeth, 219n7

Dublin Castle, 75, 165, 182, 185–86

Dublin Parliament, 8, 9, 25, 30–33

and Edgeworth, 34, 47, 52

Dunne, Tom, 20

Eagleton, Terry: on Edgeworth, 20, 36, 213n12, 214n22

on Irish Land Acts, 130, 131

Easby, Rebecca Jeffrey, 216n8

Edgeworth, Maria: The Absentee, 11, 22, 40, 214n20

and British state, 4, 11, 22, 42, 46–50, 52, 53, 56

and Edmund Burke, 21, 22, 24–26, 34–35, 37, 39, 42, 45, 53, 56

Marilyn Butler on, 23, 39, 212n1, 213n17, 214n23

Castle Rackrent, 11, 23, 25–27, 30–38, 46

Mary Jean Corbett on, 213n14

Tom Dunne on, 20

Terry Ea gleton on, 20, 36, 213n12

and Robert Lovell Edgeworth, 19, 26, 39–40, 46, 50, 212n1, 213n18, 214n20

Ennui, 11, 38–46

Essay on Irish Bulls, 11, 36

Essays on Professional Education, 19, 214n20

Thomas Flanagan on, 213n13

Daniel Hack on, 33–34, 212n9

and John Stuart Mill, 55–56, 89–90

Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, 213n18

Sharon Murphy on, 20

and national identity, 13, 19, 20, 211n6, 213n12, 214n22, 214n23

Ormond, 11, 46–53

and Walter Scott, 19, 22, 23, 27, 212n2

“Simple Susan,” 22, 27–30

and the national tale, 11, 22–25, 27–28, 144, 212n3

Robert Tracy on, 25–26, 30

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 19, 26, 39–40, 46, 50, 212n1, 213n18, 214n20

Egenolf, Susan, 212n9

Egeria, 194, 221n19

Elam, Diane, 189, 192, 220n11

Eliot, George: Middlemarch, 106

Mill on the Floss, 138

Silas Marner, 138

Elliott, Marianne, 212n7

emigration, Irish, 10, 209

Engels, Friedrich, 116, 118, 124

English Land Restoration League, 168

entail, 39, 137

and Edmund Burke, 21, 24, 98

as debt, 33, 39, 58

and the free market, 97, 101, 169, 173, 175, 216n12

Irish, 218n21

Epping Forest, 169

Epstein, James A., 110, 217n17

famine: Ireland 1817, 46

Ireland 1847, 10

and John Stuart Mill, 65, 83, 133

and Anthony Trollope, 133–35, 218n1

and Young Ireland, 119, 120, 133

Farrer, T. H., 174

Fenians, 6, 10, 83, 129

Ferguson, Moira, 218n3

Ferris, Ina, 14, 24, 212n2, 212n3, 212n5

Finn, Margot, 217n17, 219n5

Flanagan, Thomas, 40, 41, 49, 213n13, 214n22

Foster, John, 32

Foucault, Michel, 15, 109, 212n13

franchise, reform, 94, 101, 109–10, 112, 140, 160, 220n11

women’s, 156, 161, 219n6, 220n11

Frank, Catherine O., 219n7

Fraser, Murray, 211n4

Frazier, Adrian, 179, 211n7, 220n7

Freedgood, Elaine, 208, 211n3

Free Land League, 168–69. See also Arnold, Arthur

free market property, 41–42, 169, 175

free trade, 99, 101, 112, 147, 170, 201, 218n24

Frey, Anne, 15, 212n12

Froude, J. A.: on copyright, 173, 175

on Irish property, 87, 215n7

Fulford, Tim, 215n2

Gallagher, Catherine, 26, 36, 216n6

Gavan Duffy, Charles, 118, 126, 215n10

Geoghegan, Patrick, 213n11

Gladstone, William Ewart: and Home Rule, 191–92

and Irish Land Acts, 87, 114, 124, 126–29, 131, 218n22

Goodlad, Lauren: and governmentality, 15, 212n12

and John Stuart Mill, 61, 62

and Trollope, 136–37

Gordon, Robert W., 215n3

governmentality, 15–16, 63, 109, 212n12, 212n13

“Grattan’s Parliament.” See Dublin Parliament

Gray, Kevin, 217n13

Grey, Thomas C., 217n13

Griffin, Ben, 219n5

Habeas Corpus, 1

suspension of, in Ireland, 182

Hack, Daniel, 33–34, 212n9

Hadley, Elaine: on George Meredith, 189

on Mill, 60–61

on self-possessed individualism, 214n2

Heller, Michael A., 217n13

Helsinger, Elizabeth, 208, 216n9

Hilton, Boyd, 221n18

Home Rule, 209

and Corn Law repeal, 192, 202

and George Meredith, 12, 168, 177, 192, 202

and George Moore, 12, 168, 177, 187

and Charles Parnell, 129, 191

and public domain, 168, 177, 187

and Anthony Trollope, 162

Honore, A. M., 216n13

Hopkins, A. G., 221n20

House of Commons, English: and copyright, 173

in Trollope’s novels, 148, 159, 161, 163, 166

House of Commons, Irish, 32

Howe, Anthony, 221n20

Howitt, William, 70–71, 73, 139

Howkins, Alun, 111

improving agriculture, 97

intellectual property. See copyright

Irish Land Act (1870), 12, 91, 125, 217n21

Bright Clauses of, 129

and British land reform, 167, 169, 176

and George Campbell, 128–31

and William Gladstone, 87, 126–28, 131, 218n22

and Henry Sumner Maine, 128–30

and John Stuart Mill, 87, 128, 131

and tenant right, 126–27, 129, 130–31

and Anthony Trollope, 132, 165, 206

Irish Land Act (1881), 12, 91, 125, 217n21

and British land reform, 167, 169, 176

and William Gladstone, 87, 126–28, 131

and Henry Sumner Maine, 128–30

and John Stuart Mill, 87, 128, 131

and tenant right, 126–27, 129, 130–31

and Anthony Trollope, 132, 165

Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. See Fenians

Jones, Mervyn, 211n8

Jones, Richard, 64

Kennedy, Duncan, 215n3

Kiberd, Declan, 27, 45

Kinzer, Bruce L., 84, 211n9

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J., 211n6

Klein, Lawrence E., 215n2

Kostal, R. W., 172–73

Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, 212n1

Kumar, Krishan, 207

Laing, Samuel, 70, 73

laissez-faire economics. See free trade

Lalor, James Fintan, 119–23, 135

Land Courts, 129–30

Land Law Reform League, 168

Land League (Irish): and Irish Land Acts, 126, 129

and Land War, 129, 179, 183, 185, 202, 220n9

and John Stuart Mill, 215n10

and Kitty O’Shea, 191

landlord, state as, 62, 66, 84, 86, 174, 176

landlords, Anglo-Irish, 30, 46, 52, 87, 115, 209, 218n21, 218n24

and Matthew Arnold, 172

and George Campbell, 130, 132

and Maria Edgeworth, 20, 22, 26, 33, 35, 39–41, 46, 47, 52–53, 56, 89, 214n20, 214n23

and George Meredith, 202

and John Stuart Mill, 64, 66, 72, 75

and George Moore, 179–80, 182, 183–85

and Anthony Trollope, 132, 134–36

and Young Ireland, 118, 120, 122–23

landlords, English, 139, 168, 206–7

Land Nationalization Society, 168

Land Tenure Reform Association, 58

Land War, 10, 129, 202

in Drama in Muslin, 179–85

Langbauer, Laurie, 144–45

Leslie, T. E. Cliffe, 172

liberal individual: and C. B. MacPherson, 91–92, 146–47

and John Stuart Mill, 59–62, 66–69

and the impossibility of self-possession, 146–49, 214n2

and the state, 95–96

Liberty and Property Defence League, 168

Lloyd, David, 14, 213n15

Locke, John: and Jeremy Bentham, 103

and Irish property, 119, 120

and C. B. MacPherson, 92

and Henry Sumner Maine, 84–85

John Stuart Mill’s revision of, 59–61, 63, 215n5

and postcolonial critics, 5

and property in one’s own person, 56, 84, 91

and the state, 7, 10, 57, 63, 74, 91, 95

Lockhart, J. G., 22–23

Macaulay, Thomas, 1–2

MacDonagh, Oliver, 130–31

MacPherson, C. B., 16, 61, 92, 146–47

Maine, Henry Sumner, 12

Ancient Law, 84–85, 128

and Matthew Arnold, 171

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, 218n23

and John Stuart Mill, 85, 128–29

modern usage of, 130–31

and the Irish Land Acts, 128–31, 215n10, 218n24

Village Communities, 85

Mandler, Peter, 139, 216n8

Marcus, Jane, 220n10

married women. See wives

Married Women’s Property Act (1870), 159–60

Married Women’s Property Act (1882), 159–60, 169

Married Women’s Property Act, Amendment (1874), 219n6

Matrimonial Causes Act (1857), 219n6

Matthews-Kane, Bridget, 218n1

McCaw, Neil, 211n10

McCulloch, J. R., 215n5

McDowell, R. B., 212n4

McGraw, Sean, 217n19

McKenna, Theobald, 31, 33

McLoughlin, T. O., 212n9

McMaster, Juliet, 141

Mehta, Uday Singh, 5–6, 8

Meredith, George, 4, 12, 15

Gillian Beer on, 220n12

and blended space, 199–205

Elizabeth Bradburn on, 199–200

Celtic identity of, 13, 205, 211n8, 221n22, 221n23

and Corn Law repeal, 192, 195, 201–2, 220n3

Diana of the Crossways, 167, 187–205

Timothy Dolin on, 189, 220n10

Diane Elam on, 189, 192, 220n11

feminist readings of, 189–92, 220n10, 220n12, 220n14

Elaine Hadley on, 189

and Home Rule, 13, 15, 167–68, 177, 192, 220n17

and Irish land on British soil, 188, 192, 202, 204–5

and married women’s property, 190–91, 220n12, 220n15

and Caroline Norton, 187, 191–92, 220n13

and Kitty O’Shea, 191–92, 220n16

and public domain, 190, 192–98

Judith Wilt on, 199

and women’s involvement in politics, 191, 193–97, 220n11

Virginia Woolf on, 199

Merrill, Thomas W., 217n13

Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 168

Michelet, Jules, 72

Mill, Harriet Taylor, 55, 64

Mill, John Stuart, 4, 13

Autobiography, 55, 64

Janice Carlisle on, 77, 214n3, 215n8

Considerations on Representative Government, 57, 59, 64, 72, 83

Mary Jean Corbett on, 214n3

and Maria Edgeworth, 53, 55–56, 89

“England and Ireland,” 83–87, 215n10

Lauren Goodlad on, 61

Elaine Hadley on, 60–61

as imperialist, 56, 214n1, 215n6, 215n7, 215n8, 215n10

and Ireland, 58, 62, 65, 71–72, 74, 76–77, 83, 85–87, 90, 128–29, 131, 133–35

Irish essays in the Morning Chronicle, 65, 67–77, 79, 84–86, 172, 214n3

Bruce Kinzer on, 84, 214n3, 215n6

and Henry Sumner Maine, 84–86, 128–29, 131, 171

On Liberty, 56–57, 59–60, 62–64, 68–69, 71, 73, 77, 80

On the Subjection of Women, 151

and peasant proprietors, 15, 53, 58, 62, 64, 66–74, 77–81, 108, 133, 207, 209, 215n7

Principles of Political Economy, 60, 63–65, 69, 71, 73, 78, 79–80, 85, 87

revision of Locke, 59–61, 63–64, 74, 215n5

“The Right of Property in Land,” 58

E. D. Steele on, 84, 214n3

and the British state, 4, 11, 53–54, 59, 62–63, 66, 73–76, 82, 84, 86–87, 133–35, 172, 207

and the liberal individual, 57–61, 65–70, 73

and utilitarian theory, 56–57

and women’s suffrage, 219n6

and workers’

cooperatives, 77–82

Miller, Andrew H., 2, 141

Miller, D. A., 157

Mitchel, John, 119

Moore, George, 4

and Anglo-Irish identity, 15, 179, 184, 211n7

and copyright, 178–79

Drama in Muslin, 177–87, 188, 192

and Home Rule, 13, 168, 177, 187

and Land War, 182–83, 185, 188

“Literature at Nurse,” 220n9

A Modern Lover, 178, 220n8

and Mudie’s Circulating Library, 178–79

A Mummer’s Wife, 178

and nursemaids, 179, 220n9

Parnell and His Island, 220n9

and public domain, 15, 167, 168, 177, 179, 181–82, 188, 192

and the British state, 12, 15, 179, 185–86

and Zola, 178, 220n7

Morash, Christopher, 218n1

Morgan, Lady. See Owenson, Sydney Morris, Pam, 15, 212n12

Mudie’s Circulating Library, 178–79, 220n8, 220n9

Municipal Corporations Act (1869), 219n6, 220n11

Murphy, Sharon, 20

Naipaul, V. S., 213n19

Nardin, Jane, 218n1

Nash, Joseph, 99, 139

national tale, 11, 14, 22–28, 144, 198, 212n3, 212n8

Norton, Caroline, 151, 187, 191–92, 220n13, 220n14

Nunokawa, Jeff, 2, 151

O’Brien, Bronterre, 111–12

O’Connell, Daniel, 117, 184, 217n19

O’Connor, Feargus, 110–12

O’Hagan, John Lord, 124

O’Shea, Katherine “Kitty,” 191, 220n16

Owen, Robert, 81, 112

Owenson, Sydney, 9, 25–26

Paine, Thomas, 104–5, 109

influence on Ireland, 212n4

and precedent, 21–22

Parliament (British), 1, 8, 13, 112, 140

consolidation with Dublin parliament (“Grattan’s Parliament”), 31, 32, 52, 213n11

and copyright, 170, 173, 174

in Diana of the Crossways, 188, 193, 194

and Irish Land Acts, 128, 217n21, 217n22

Irish participation in, 129, 135, 163, 185, 209, 217n22

the landed class’s domination of, 101, 221n20

reform of, 105, 110, 117

in Anthony Trollope’s novels, 132, 135, 137, 140–41, 147–48, 153, 155–59, 161, 163, 164, 166, 219n8

and women, 140–41, 153, 155–59, 160–61, 194, 219n6, 219n8

Parnell, Charles, 129, 191, 215n10

patents, 211n3, 215n1, 219n5

peasant proprietor: German, 70, 73

as liberal individual, 57–62, 68–69, 73

and John Stuart Mill, 15, 53–54, 58–59, 62–77, 78–82, 108, 122, 133, 207, 209, 215n7

Norwegian, 122

Pelly, Lewis, 17

Perkin, H. J., 217n18

Pettitt, Clare, 211, 215n1

Pinch, Adela, 216n6

Plotz, John, 208, 211, 217n15

Plummer, Alfred, 111

Pocock, J. G. A., 96, 215n2

police force in Ireland, 8, 46, 211n5

Poovey, Mary, 100, 151–52, 216n11, 220n14

Pretto-Sakmann, Arianna, 217n13

primogeniture, 101, 168–69

property: bundle of rights, theory of, 11, 103, 104, 112, 113, 127, 216n13

fetishism, 105–9, 136

Irish, 91, 113–16, 125–32, 216n12

and liberalism, 16–17, 61, 63, 67, 91–93, 95–96, 146–47

literary, 99–100

in one’s labor, 3, 5, 39–40, 74, 91–93, 102–3, 104–5, 110, 128, 170–74

property in land, exceptional status, 62, 112–13, 136, 168–76

from status to contract, 127–32

as symbol of community, 89, 90, 93, 97–99, 100, 139

in the free market, 42–43

as thing (reification of), 101–9, 215n3

as zone of autonomy, 90, 92, 93–97, 100

public domain, 16

and copyright debates, 167–68, 170–71, 175–77, 197

and Home Rule, 12, 168, 177

and land, 170, 176, 188, 197

and George Meredith, 187–88, 190–97

and George Moore, 179, 184–87

and the British state, 168, 177, 185, 195

Quinn, James, 213n11

Radin, Margaret Jane, 92, 96

Ragussis, Michael, 164

railways and property, 75, 172–73, 176, 190, 207

Rau, Karl, 70

Reade, Charles, 219n6

Readman, Paul, 16, 217n18

Rebellion of 1798, 30–31, 46, 212n4

Reform Act, Third (1884), 189, 220n11

Reform Acts, 112

Ribbon Men, 10, 124

Ricardo, David, 215n5

Robbins, Bruce, 109, 217n16

Rockites, 10, 76, 77, 124

Romilly, John, 1–2

Rose, Mark, 96, 100, 215n3

Ross, Trevor, 100, 176

Said, Edward, 5

Saint-Amour, Paul K., 170, 219n5

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen, 150

Saville, John, 211n5

Schmidgen, Wolfram, 216n7

Scotland, 216n10, 217n20

Scott, Walter, 19, 22, 23, 27, 212n2, 218n2

Scrope, George Poulet, 76

self-possessed individual, 16, 61, 92

Settled Land Act of 1882, 169

Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 160, 220n11

Shaw, John, 219n1

Shaw-Lefevre, John George, 169, 219n4

Sherman, Brad, 219n5

Simpson, A. W. B., 215n3

Sismondi, Simonde de, 70

slavery, 64, 150–51, 155

smallholder. See peasant proprietor

Smiles, Samuel, 61

Smith, Adam, 85, 99

Philosophy of Moral Sentiments, 96, 98

Wealth of Nations, 41, 215n5

Smith, Henry E., 217n13

Solow, Barbara Lewis, 87

Sommer, Doris, 24, 212n8

Spence, Thomas, 112

Spencer, Herbert, 113

Steele, E. D., 84, 86, 126, 129, 211n1, 214n3, 215n9, 215n10

Stevenson, Lionel, 221n23

Stewart, Robert, 32

Stone, J. S., 221n17, 221n21

Strathern, Marilyn, 123

Sullivan, Samuel, 115–16, 118

tenant right, 125–27, 129–30, 217n20, 218n21

“thing theory,” 211n3

Thompson, E. P., 216

Thompson, William, 150

Thornton, William, 64

Tierney, Michael, 217n19

Tithe War, 10, 50, 124

Tracy, Robert, 25, 26, 30

Trollope, Anthony, 4, 13

Patrick Brantlinger on, 144

and British Parliament, 132, 135, 137, 140–41, 147–48, 153, 155–59, 161, 163, 164, 166, 219n8

Can You Forgive Her?, 138, 152, 153, 154, 156, 160, 164, 166, 218n4

Castle Richmond, 134, 218n1

William A. Cohen on, 144

Mary Jean Corbett on, 161, 219n7

Paul Delaney on, 141

The Eustace Diamonds, 141–45, 149, 157

Examiner letters, 133–35

Phineas Finn, 135, 145, 154, 155, 156, 162, 163, 164

and Ireland, 125, 133–37, 141, 161–64

and Irish Land Acts, 165, 206

and Jews, 137, 163–64

The Kellys and the O’Kellys, 135

Laurie Langbauer on, 144–45

The MacDermots of Ballyclaron, 135

Juliet McMaster on, 141

Andrew H. Miller on, 141

D. A. Miller on, 157

North America, 209

Phineas Redux, 142, 145, 147, 148, 149, 157, 162, 219n8

The Prime Minister, 143, 144, 145, 154, 155, 158, 159, 161, 162, 164, 165, 206–7

and self-possession, 146–49

The Small House at Allington, 145

and the British state, 133–34

on the famine, 133–35, 218n1

and vicarious enjoyment of property, 12, 15, 132, 136, 138, 153–57, 165–66

“What Does Ireland Want?,” 125

and wives, 12, 136, 138, 140, 150–56, 159–61, 207, 209, 219n8

Trumpener, Katie, 14, 23

Ulster Custom. See tenant right

Underkuffler, Laura S., 95, 216n5, 217n14

Unencumbered Estates Act (1849), 218n21

Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 4, 17, 31

British attempts to preserve, 86, 87, 129

and dissolution of Dublin Parliament (“Grattan’s Parliament”), 30–33, 52, 213n11

and Maria Edgeworth, 20, 22–23, 25, 30, 33–34, 45, 47, 50, 52, 212n8, 212n9, 214n20

Irish rebellion against, 6, 10, 83, 117, 120, 129, 202, 209

and George Meredith, 177, 202–4

and John Stuart Mill, 83, 86

and George Moore, 177

and the marriage plot, 23–24, 25–26, 161–62, 198, 219n7

and Anthony Trollope, 12, 136–37, 161, 162

Union between Great Britain and Ireland Act (1801), 4, 8, 20, 23–25, 212n9

and bribery, 213n11

debate on the passage of, 30–34

United Irishmen, 30, 31, 212n4, 212n7

United Irishmen Uprising. See Rebellion of 1798

Uprising of 1798. See Rebellion of 1798

Vanden Bossche, Chris R., 100, 219n5

Vandevelde, Kenneth J., 217n13

Veblen, Thorstein, 152

welfare state, 109

Whelan, Kevin, 212n7, 217n19

White Boys, 10, 76, 77, 124

W. H. Smith Lending Library, 220n8

Williams, Raymond, 96

Wilt, Judith, 199

wives: and politics, 137, 141, 155–59, 220n11

and property, 12, 36–38, 137, 141, 150–55, 159–61, 189–91, 220n11, 220n12

Wolfreys, Julian, 164

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 150

Women’s Suffrage Bill (1866), 219n6

Woods, G. S., 219n3

Wyndham Acts, 129

Young, Arthur: and improving agriculture, 97

and the “magic of property,” 67, 70–71, 215n7

Young, Edward, 100

Young England, 99

Young Ireland, 4, 12, 13, 89, 91, 117–25, 127, 133

Zastoupil, Lynn, 214n3, 215n9

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