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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the last forty-five years, spanning economic, social, cultural and political history. Introduction and Bibliography of L.M. Cullen David Dickson (TCD)
Table of ContentsEnergy rich, energy poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, T.C.Smout (University of St. Andrews);Irish and Scottish development revisited, T.M. Devine (University of Aberdeen);Did Ireland starve?, L.A. Clarkson (QUB);Economic progress in the canal age, Bruce M.S. Campbell (QUB);Tupac Amaru and Captain Right: a comparative perspective on eighteenth-century Ireland, S.J. Connolly (QUB);Transportation from Ireland to North America, 1703-1789, James Kelly (St Patrick's College);Louis Cullen: De l'histoire des communaut s marchandes irlandaises en France, celle des eaux-de-vie et de l'histoire conomique de la France au xviiie si cle, J-P. Poussou (l'universit de Paris Sorbonne);New York City's Irish merchants and trade with the enemy during the Seven Years War, Thomas M. Truxes (Trinity College, Connecticut);The social composition of the Catholic Convention, 1792-1793, C.J. Woods (Dictionary of Irish Biography project);Henrietta Battier: Poet and radical, 1751-1813, Ann C. Kavanaugh (Concordia College, Minnesota);A house divided: The Loftus family, earls and marquesses of Ely, c. 1600-c. 1900, A.P.W. Malcomson (PRONI);A bowling match at Castlemary, County Cork, Mair ad Dunlevy (National Museum of Ireland) and Cormac Gr da (UCD);Harry Boland s American Revolution, 1919-1921, David Fitzpatrick (TCD);The cost of living in Ireland, 1698-1998, Liam Kennedy (QUB);Irish trade in the nineteenth century, Peter M. Solar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel);The Irish distilling industry under the Union, Andy Bielenberg (NUI Cork);Moral hazard and quasi-central banking: Should the Munster Bank have been saved? Cormac Gr da (UCD);Ireland and the bigger picture, Kevin H. O Rourke (TCD);The modernization of rural Ireland, c. 1920-c. 1960, M.E. Daly (UCD);The roots of contemporary Irish economic development, Kieran A. Kennedy (ESRI, Dublin)
