Constructing the Past – Writing Irish History, 1600–1800

Introduction - Roy Foster Seventeenth-century Constructions of the Historical Kingdom of Ireland - Bernadette Cunningham History, the Interregnum and the Exiled Irish - 'Making Dead Men Speak': Manipulating the Memory of James Usher - Alan Ford The 1688 Revolution in Ireland and the Memory of 1641 - Richard Ansell Writing and Publishing Histories in Eighteenth-century Ireland - Toby C Barnard The Volunteer Evening Post and Patriotic Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland - Martyn J. Powell Constructing Counter-Revolutionary History in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland - Ultan Gillen Cromwell and Catholics: Towards a Reassessment of Lay Catholic Experience in Interregnum Ireland - Scott Spurlock Nature, Politics and Historians in Early Modern Ireland - Raymond Gillespie