Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829

Military, political, cultural and religious dimensions of Irish loyalism are examined to show it as more complex than hitherto imagined. Irish loyalism is often neglected in the historical literature or misrepresented as an ideologically rigid and narrowly sectarian foil to emerging nationalism. Yet, in the French Revolutionary wars, loyalism was a recognisable counter-revolutionary ideology with recent parallels in Britain, Europe and America. This book examines the Irish variant in a comparati