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‘A Clean Beast’: Crofton Croker’s Fairy Tale of General Holt by Ruan O’Donnell, and Bob Reece 7
‘Our Chief Poetess’: Mary Barber and Swift’s Circle by Bernard Tucker 43
‘Industry and Virtue versus Luxury and Corruption’: Berkeley, Walpole, and the South Sea Bubble Crisis by Patrick Kelly 57
Tuairisc Amhailt Uí Iartáin: An eighteenth-century poem on a fair by Cornelius G. Buttimer 75
‘The Irish Opposition, Parliamentary Reform and Public Opinion, 1793-1794 by Denis Kennedy 95
‘The Most dangerous villain in society’: Fr. John Martin’s mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798 by Daire Keogh 115
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Henry Fielding and Ireland by Charles Trainor 136
John Hughes, Reluctant Agent Provocateur and Millenarian: A Note and New Documents by Michael Durey 141
An unnoticed pamphlet by Charles O’Conor at Belanagare: A vindication of the political principles of Roman Catholics (1761?) by C. J. Woods 147
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Poetry and Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Michelle O Riordan: The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World by Breandán Ó Buachalla 149
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