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'Powell provides a well-informed, lively and frequently entertaining study. Above all, his work illustrates the potential for much more research on the subject.' - Liam Chambers, History, The Journal of the Historical Association 'The study, while highlighting key periods in Irish politics, forwards the argument for a link between English consumption and Irish emulation in a thought-provoking way and helps to fill a gap in a much neglected area which will surely advance and encourage further debate on the consumption patterns of Ireland in the eighteenth-century.' - Lisa Griffith, Eighteenth-Century Ireland

'Powell provides a well-informed, lively and frequently entertaining study. Above all, his work illustrates the potential for much more research on the subject.' - Liam Chambers, History, The Journal of the Historical Association 'The study, while highlighting key periods in Irish politics, forwards the argument for a link between English consumption and Irish emulation in a thought-provoking way and helps to fill a gap in a much neglected area which will surely advance and encourage further debate on the consumption patterns of Ireland in the eighteenth-century.' - Lisa Griffith, Eighteenth-Century Ireland

'Powell provides a well-informed, lively and frequently entertaining study. Above all, his work illustrates the potential for much more research on the subject.' - Liam Chambers, History, The Journal of the Historical Association 'The study, while highlighting key periods in Irish politics, forwards the argument for a link between English consumption and Irish emulation in a thought-provoking way and helps to fill a gap in a much neglected area which will surely advance and encourage further debate on the consumption patterns of Ireland in the eighteenth-century.' - Lisa Griffith, Eighteenth-Century Ireland

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MARTYN J. POWELL is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. He has published widely on eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. His first book Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2003.

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