The Author: Sabine Baltes studied English Language and Literature, Modern History, and Economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine / Northern Ireland. From 1997 to 1999, she worked at the Institut für Buchwissenschaft und Textforschung, in 2000 at the Labor für Biophysik, and in 2002 at the Ehrenpreis-Institut für Swift Studien at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.

• Contents: Ireland in the Early Eighteenth Century – The Origins and Development of Irish Constitutional Nationalism – The Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) – The Drapier and Popular Protest in Ireland.

The Author: Sabine Baltes studied English Language and Literature, Modern History, and Economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine / Northern Ireland. From 1997 to 1999, she worked at the Institut für Buchwissenschaft und Textforschung, in 2000 at the Labor für Biophysik, and in 2002 at the Ehrenpreis-Institut für Swift Studien at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.

• Contents: Ireland in the Early Eighteenth Century – The Origins and Development of Irish Constitutional Nationalism – The Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) – The Drapier and Popular Protest in Ireland.

The Author: Sabine Baltes studied English Language and Literature, Modern History, and Economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine / Northern Ireland. From 1997 to 1999, she worked at the Institut für Buchwissenschaft und Textforschung, in 2000 at the Labor für Biophysik, and in 2002 at the Ehrenpreis-Institut für Swift Studien at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.

• Contents: Ireland in the Early Eighteenth Century – The Origins and Development of Irish Constitutional Nationalism – The Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) – The Drapier and Popular Protest in Ireland.