Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century - Softcover

These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism. A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.

D. George Boyce is Research Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales.

Vincent Geoghegan is Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University, Belfast. Besides Utopianism and Marxism he is also the author of Reason and Eros: The Social Theory of Herbert Marcuse (1981) and Ernst Block (1996). He is currently working on a book on interwar British religious radicals.