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Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4): The Isle of Slaves - The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland) (2009) McDowell, R. B. Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution, 1760–1801 (1979) Murray, Alice Effie (1903). "After Limerick" . Studies in Irish History, 1649-1775. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd. – via Wikisource.
In the 18th century English trade with Ireland was the most important branch of English overseas trade 1. Absentee landlords drew off some £800,000 p.a. in farm rents in the early part of the century, rising to £1 million, in an economy that amounted to about £4 million.
The Whiteboys (Irish: na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming. Their name derives from the white smocks that members wore in their nighttime raids.
Pages in category "18th century in Ireland" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Road conditions were difficult, often dangerous, and long-distance travel by road was generally slow and uncomfortable. Giraldus Cambrensis gives an indication of the slowness of travel in 12th century Ireland, which he also describes as a "truly a desert land [i.e. sparsely populated], without roads, but well watered." [23]
Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which started a population decline that continued for almost a century. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule .
Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: Collected Essays of Maureen Wall. Geography Publications. ISBN 978-0-906602-10-2. A Glimpse of Town and Country in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 1971, by Wall, Maureen & Simms, J. G. The Rise of a Catholic Middle Class in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Irish Historical Studies, 1958, Cambridge University Press
"The Right Boys Paying Their Tythes", a propagandist engraving from c. 1786. The Rightboys were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which, from 1785 to 1788, protested against the payment of tithes, the charges imposed by clergy from both Catholic and Anglican churches, perceived unfair rents and agricultural labourers' wages. [1]