The 1798 Rebellion unleashed a paper war involving contemporary historians and pro-Establishment literary reviews. This volume traces this paper-warfare against the background of the Union, Catholic Emancipation, Young Ireland, Gladstone and the Fenians, Victoria's jubilees, the 1898 centenary and the South African War.

STUART ANDREWS is Librarian of the Wells and Mendip Museum, UK. He is the author of two earlier books on counter-revolutionary polemic in the decades following the American and French revolutions, most recently Unitarian Radicalism: Political Rhetoric 1770-1814 (2003).