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“This study is important for all students of the 18th century and particularly for those interested in Irish drama.” —Choice “Wheatley’s research is thorough and his arguments are convincing and even enlightening.... [R]eaders will be inspired to consider afresh the intricacies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Irish society, and none can fail to feel its resonances with many of the issues facing Irish society today.” —Review of English Studies “[F]ascinating documents of emerging, yet fractured, Protestant cultural identity. This study is useful reading not only for those who would study the roots of Irish theatre, but also for those interested in the emergence of a public articulation of cultural identity which we might term politics.” —Irish Review “This is a book that opens up a new set of possibilities for historians. It serves as a reminder that the reconstruction of the attitudes and values which underlay the activities of politicians and others is possible with the imaginative use of previously neglected material, and foremost among that is the less than polished works which Wheatley submits to such revealing scrutiny. This is a book that all those engaged in the study of high politics and the machinations of eighteenth-century Irish bishops should be compelled to read.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History “Through his carefully researched and nuanced readings of a body of plays by Irish Protestants from 1663 to the 1770s he demonstrates that eighteenth-century Irish culture was a complex tapestry, not merely a series of oppositional units....” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology “Christopher Wheatley’s Beneath Ierne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century is an important new book on Irish drama. Wheatley does an impressive job of pulling together a range of primary documents and unfamiliar texts to make his case...combines a skillful sense of literary genre with an informative perspective on the issues of national identity at stake.” —Year’s Work in English Studies

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Christopher J. Wheatley is Associate Professor of English at the Catholic University of America and the author of Without God or Reason: The Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration (1993).

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