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Reflecting on developments since 1689, the Conclusion asserts that the increasing numbers of publications offering news, commentary and opinion on British political affairs that were produced in Ireland over the course of William III’s and Anne’s reigns were central to the emergence of printed material offering partisan commentary and opinion on Irish political affairs by 1711–1714. The success of these reprinted publications, and the failure of the state to censor any but the most controversial of them, led Irish publishers to disregard the threat of post-publication censorship and publish overtly partisan material reflecting on domestic political proceedings for the first time. This development can be seen to have laid the basis for the development of a more vigorous culture of political print that emerged in the 1720s and 1730s.
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Notes
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S. J. Connolly, Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660–1760 (Oxford, 1999), 79.
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Stephen Radcliffe, A Sermon Preached at the Assizes Held at Naas , for the County of Kildare, 6 Apr. 1714 (Dublin, 1714), 3, 5–6; John Echlin, The Royal Martyr. A Sermon Preached before Their Excellencies the Lords Justices, 30 Jan. 1713 (Dublin, 1713), 21–22; Patrick Delany, A Sermon Preach’d at Christ-Church, Dublin, 16 June 1713 (Dublin, 1713), [14], [18–19].
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The R-----r’s Speech at Mr. B-Se’s Convinticle the Women and Children Being Withdrawn, by Order of Mr. B----Se (Dublin, 1713) [n.p.]; [William Tisdall], The Conduct of the Dissenters of Ireland (Dublin, 1712), 84.
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Dublin Intelligence, 17 June 1710; Peter Browne, Of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead. Being the Substance of a Discourse Deliver’d to the Clergy of the Diocese of Cork , on the Fourth of November, 1713, by the Bishop of That Diocese (Dublin, 1713), 18; A Letter to the Author of The Speaker. A Poem (Dublin, [1713?]), 2.
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[Tisdall], The Conduct of the Dissenters of Ireland, 3.
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CJI, 2:468.
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[William Percevale], A Reply to a Vindication of the Letter Published in a Pamphlet Called Pa[r]tiality Detected (Dublin, 1710).
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Joseph Trapp, A Sermon Preach’d at Christ-Church, Dublin, 29 May 1711 (Dublin, 1711), 23.
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Robert Munter, History of the Irish Newspaper (Cambridge, 1967), 130–31; David Dickson, New Foundations: Ireland 1660–1800 (Dublin, 2000), 68.
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HMC, Portland MSS, V, 460.
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Whalley’s News-Letter, 12 Feb. 1715; Polyphemus’s Farewel: Or, a Long Adieu to Ireland’s Eye. A Poem (Dublin, 1714).
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Whalley’s News-Letter, 22 June 1715.
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Whalley’s News-letter, 26 Feb. 1715; Munter, Irish Newspaper, 129.
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CJI, 2:16.
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Munter, Irish Newspaper, 129.
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Dublin Intelligence, 2 Nov. 1714; Mary Pollard, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade, 1550–1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St Luke the Evangelist, Dublin (London, 2000), 368.
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Munter, Irish Newspaper, 129–31.
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Hayton, Ruling Ireland, 106–30.
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Sabine Baltes, The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722–1725) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism (Munster, 2002), 1; Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield, eds., The Oxford History of the Irish Book, III: The Irish Book in English 1550–1800 (Oxford, 2006), 11; Albert Goodwin, ‘Wood’s Halfpence’, English Historical Review 51, no. 204 (1936): 647–74.
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W. E. H. Lecky, Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (New York, 1876), 49.
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S. D. Moore, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Baltimore, 2010), 191.
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Forbes, S. (2018). Conclusion. In: Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71586-5_9
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