1. Two revolutions : Jacobite and Williamite -- 2. Anglo-Irish politics, 1692-1704 : the rise of party -- 3. The beginnings of the 'undertaker system' -- 4. High churchmen in the Irish convocation -- 5. The crisis in Ireland and the disintegration of Queen Anne's last ministry -- 6. Exclusion, conformity and parliamentary representation : the impact of the sacramental test on Irish dissenting politics -- 7. British whig ministers and the Irish question, 1714-25 -- 8. 'A remote part of the king's dominions' : Sir Robert Walpole's administration and the government of Ireland, c.1725-42
Summary
In a series of studies, David Hayton offers a comprehensive account of the government of Ireland during the period of transformation from 'New English' colonialism to Anglo-Irish 'patriotism', providing a chronological survey of the development of English policy towards Ireland and an account of the changing political structure of Ireland; particular attention is paid to the emergence of an English-style party system under Queen Anne
