The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socialization in aristocratic circles in eighteenth-century London, a subject area that awaits systematic investigation: his is less a story of rags to riches than of a resourceful Irishman from a family of Anglo-Norman pedigree repositioning himself in London society to take maximum advantage of an extraordinary piece of good fortune. He was so successful in confirming his own family’s preeminence, that the Fitzmaurice-Pettys procured a British peerage in one generation, and in the next, attained the office of British first minister in the person of his son, William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne.</div
In this paper I would like to look at two contrasting examples of Irish Identity in the long eightee...
© Colin Veach 2014. This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England,...
The closing decades of the eighteenth century saw a reinvigoration of both English and Irish politic...
The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socializat...
In the late eighteenth century, the British people refashioned their relationship with empire in the...
Though untrue, it was regarded as highly plausible that Sir John Perrot, Elizabeth’s former lord dep...
CHAPTER I GEORGE TOWNSEND\u27S ADMINISTRATION, 1767-1775 George Ill’s plans to strengthen the power ...
Parental profligacy and the dishonesty of his guardian meant that when Edmund Spencer came of age in...
This regional study examines the character and pace of change in landed society in the eighteenth ce...
The question of whether Ireland had been conquered by England has received some attention from hist...
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN048700 / BLDSC - British Library Docume...
The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change ...
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial ...
[17], 205 p., [3], 24 p.Dedication signed: N. Tate.Reproduction of original in Columbia University L...
The 4th earl of Dunraven was born in Adare in 1841 into one of the wealthiest landed families in Ire...
In this paper I would like to look at two contrasting examples of Irish Identity in the long eightee...
© Colin Veach 2014. This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England,...
The closing decades of the eighteenth century saw a reinvigoration of both English and Irish politic...
The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socializat...
In the late eighteenth century, the British people refashioned their relationship with empire in the...
Though untrue, it was regarded as highly plausible that Sir John Perrot, Elizabeth’s former lord dep...
CHAPTER I GEORGE TOWNSEND\u27S ADMINISTRATION, 1767-1775 George Ill’s plans to strengthen the power ...
Parental profligacy and the dishonesty of his guardian meant that when Edmund Spencer came of age in...
This regional study examines the character and pace of change in landed society in the eighteenth ce...
The question of whether Ireland had been conquered by England has received some attention from hist...
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN048700 / BLDSC - British Library Docume...
The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change ...
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial ...
[17], 205 p., [3], 24 p.Dedication signed: N. Tate.Reproduction of original in Columbia University L...
The 4th earl of Dunraven was born in Adare in 1841 into one of the wealthiest landed families in Ire...
In this paper I would like to look at two contrasting examples of Irish Identity in the long eightee...
© Colin Veach 2014. This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England,...
The closing decades of the eighteenth century saw a reinvigoration of both English and Irish politic...
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