Irish Parliamentary Politics in the Eighteenth Century: Volume I: 1714-1730; Volume II: 1730-1760 (2 volumes)

Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1990. Hardcover. VG (Faint soiling or foxing at top of book block, otherwise quite clean.). 2 vols. Dark aqua cloth, white & color illus. dust jackets, 638 total pp. The two-volume set chronicles an important stage in Irish history. "In early eighteenth-century Ireland, a group of Irish Protesant leaders determined that the recurrent cycle of rebellion, suppression and confiscation that had plagued the country for much of the previous century should be brought to an end. They persuaded themselves that the only way to ensure the future security and prosperity of their community was both to suppress the Catholic majority and to establish some form of institutionalized protect against perceived misguided interference in their affairs by the English government. They set about doing so by transforming the existing Irish parliament from an infrequently summoned and ineffective legislative body into an exclusively Protestant assembly with regularly scheduled sessions." (dj of v.1).