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How did the Ascendancy class respond to the fashionable theme of Improvement in the eighteenth century?

Focus on how the ascendancy class, Dublin Society especially, moved to improve their personal
landscapes, land reclamation, industry(I.E linen and flax), animal husbandry, farming practices and the
rural economy in Ireland.
These sources and files should be helpful:


Magennis, Eoin, ‘“A land of milk and honey”: the Physico-Historical Society, Improvement and the
Surveys of Mid-18th-century Ireland’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 102 (2002), 199-217.
Livesey James, ‘The Dublin Society in Eighteenth-Century Irish Political Thought’, Historical Journal
47:3 (2004) 615-40. [JSTOR] Livesey James, ‘A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: the Dublin Society, 1731-98’ in K. Stapelbroek
and J. Marjanen (eds), The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012), 52-72 [pdf available on Canvas] Desmond Clarke, ‘Thomas Prior, 1681-1751: Founder of the Royal Dublin Society’, Studies: An Irish
Quarterly Review, 40.159 (Sept., 1951) 334-344. [JSTOR] Kelly, James (ed.). The Cambridge History of Ireland, vol. 3: 1730-1880 (Cambridge: CUP, 2018):
Chapter 17: ‘Civil Society, c. 1700-c.1850’ (Martyn Powell), pp. 465-88. (Clubs and Societies)
O’Kane, Finola. ‘Design and Rule: Women in the Irish Countryside 1715-1831’, Eighteenth-Century
Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr, vol. 19 (2004) pp. 56-74. [JSTOR] Foster, Sarah, ‘Buying Irish: Consumer Nationalism in 18th-century Dublin’, History Today, 47.6 (June
1997), 44-51.
Consult DIB and ODNB articles for the following: Katherine Conolly; Louisa Conolly; Emily, Duchess
of Leinster; Lady Arabella Denny

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