Related Research Articles
Jacobitism was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the Catholic House of Stuart to the British throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and her husband William III. On the same basis, in April the Scottish Convention awarded Mary and William the throne of Scotland.
Sir Richard Steele was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
Charles Leslie was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. One of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the Stuarts after 1688, he is best remembered today for his role in publicising the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe.
Lieutenant-General William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, was a British Army officer, diplomat, politician and peer. He began his active military service during the Williamite War in Ireland in 1689 and ended it with the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. A close associate and confidant of the Duke of Marlborough, he was also a diplomat and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 1716, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cadogan.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish politician, courtier and soldier.
The Protestant Ascendancy was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries by a small Anglican ruling class, whose members consisted of landowners, politicians, clergymen, military officers and other prominent professions. They were either members of the Church of Ireland or the Church of England and wielded a disproportionate amount of social, cultural and political influence in Ireland. The Ascendancy existed as a result of British rule in Ireland, as land confiscated from the Irish Catholic aristocracy was awarded by the Crown to Protestant settlers from Great Britain.
John Tutchin was a radical Whig controversialist and gadfly English journalist, whose The Observator and earlier political activism earned him multiple trips before the bar. He was of a Puritan background and held strongly anti-Catholic views.
Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart, styled Lord Huntingtower from 1651 to 1698, was an English Tory politician and peer. A Member of Parliament at Westminster, he inherited Scottish peerages and was briefly Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1703 to 1705.
Ned Ward, also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late 17th and early 18th century in London. His most famous work, The London Spy, appeared in 18 monthly instalments from November 1698. It was described by its author as a "complete survey" of the London scene and published in book form in 1703.
The Dublin Intelligence or similar was the title of several newspapers published in Dublin in Ireland between 1690 and 1732. The longest running was published by Richard Dickson and/or his associates; several others overlapped with this one.
General Daniel Harvey was a British soldier and politician who was Governor of Guernsey from 1714 to 1732.
James Drake (1667–1707) was an English physician and political writer, a Jacobite and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, of Baron Hill, Anglesey, was a Welsh Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1704 and 1724. He was extremely hot-tempered and was involved in several personal and family disputes with local Whig leaders.
James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore was an Irish soldier and Jacobite politician.
Dick's Coffee House was a significant Irish coffeehouse in the 17th and 18th century.
Elizabeth Pue was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Sarah Pue was an Irish printer, publisher, patent medicine seller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Sarah Cotter was an Irish printer and bookseller in the mid-18th century.
The Custom House was a large brick and limestone building located at present-day Wellington Quay in Dublin, Ireland which operated as a custom house, hosting officials overseeing the functions associated with the import and export of goods to Dublin from 1707 until 1791. It also served as the headquarters of the Revenue Commissioners, as a meeting place and offices for the Wide Streets Commission and was said to be Dublin's first dedicated office building.
References
- 1 2 3 4 O'Riordan, Turlough (2009). "Pue, Richard)". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Mac Con Iomaire, Máirtín (2 May 2012). "Coffee Culture in Dublin: A Brief History". M/C Journal. 15 (2).
- ↑ Pollard, Mary (2000). A dictionary of members of the Dublin book trade 1550-1800. London: Bibliographical Society. p. 474. ISBN 0948170115. OCLC 45399214.
- ↑ Ferguson, Stephen (2016). The post office in Ireland : an illustrated history. Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland. p. 95. ISBN 9781911024415. OCLC 981912248.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
