About the Author

Padhraig Higgins is assistant professor of history at Mercer County College in New Jersey, USA.

Reviews

"A mature work, clearly the product of years of thinking and re-thinking. It is the first convincing attempt to relate the subjects of gender, consumerism, and material culture to late eighteenth-century Ireland." - Ian McBride, King's College, London "While there has been a surge of books on the 1790s in Ireland, there are precious few on the 1780s and - remarkably - nothing recent on the Volunteers. This book is timely and will fill an obvious gap." - Kevin Whelan, Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin"