R.B. MCDOWELL is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His works include Irish Public Opinion, 1750-1800, The Church of Ireland 1869-1969, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801, Land and Learning: Two Irish clubs, Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists and Grattan: A Life.

No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome … He has one of the most judicious minds in the business, and his scholarship has the respect of the most rigorous practitioners.’- A.T.Q. Stewart

• The court of Dublin Castle; Trinity College; Dublin and politics; The Dublin Society of the United Irishmen 1791-94; Ireland and England; the Anglican episcopate 1780-1945; Swift as a plural thinker; John Hely-Hutchinson; Edmund Burke and the law; Edward Carson; murder in the Rubrics; the rivals; Vice-Provost Barrett; riot at the gate, 1858; student opinion in TCD, 1938 - a survey.

R.B. MCDOWELL is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His works include Irish Public Opinion, 1750-1800, The Church of Ireland 1869-1969, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801, Land and Learning: Two Irish clubs, Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists and Grattan: A Life.

No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome … He has one of the most judicious minds in the business, and his scholarship has the respect of the most rigorous practitioners.’- A.T.Q. Stewart

• The court of Dublin Castle; Trinity College; Dublin and politics; The Dublin Society of the United Irishmen 1791-94; Ireland and England; the Anglican episcopate 1780-1945; Swift as a plural thinker; John Hely-Hutchinson; Edmund Burke and the law; Edward Carson; murder in the Rubrics; the rivals; Vice-Provost Barrett; riot at the gate, 1858; student opinion in TCD, 1938 - a survey.

R.B. MCDOWELL is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His works include Irish Public Opinion, 1750-1800, The Church of Ireland 1869-1969, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801, Land and Learning: Two Irish clubs, Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists and Grattan: A Life.

No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome … He has one of the most judicious minds in the business, and his scholarship has the respect of the most rigorous practitioners.’- A.T.Q. Stewart

• The court of Dublin Castle; Trinity College; Dublin and politics; The Dublin Society of the United Irishmen 1791-94; Ireland and England; the Anglican episcopate 1780-1945; Swift as a plural thinker; John Hely-Hutchinson; Edmund Burke and the law; Edward Carson; murder in the Rubrics; the rivals; Vice-Provost Barrett; riot at the gate, 1858; student opinion in TCD, 1938 - a survey.