Intellectual history

Relevant articles include:

• ‘The School of Virtue: Francis Hutcheson, Irish Presbyterians and the Scottish Enlightenment’, in D.G. Boyce and R.R. Eccleshall (eds.), Political Ideas in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 73-99.
• ‘When Ulster Joined Ireland: Antipopery, Presbyterian Radicalism, and the Origins of Irish Republicanism’, Past & Present, no. 157 (Nov. 1997), 63-93.
• ‘The Harp without the Crown: Republicanism and Nationalism in the 1790s’, in Sean Connolly (ed.), Whigs, Patriots and Radicals: Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2000), pp. 159-184.
• ‘Ulster Presbyterians and the Confessional State, 1689-1733’, in D. G. Boyce and R. R. Eccleshall (eds.), Political Discourse in Early Modern Ireland (Macmillan, 2001), pp. 169-92.
• ‘The Nation in the Age of Revolution’, in Len Scales and Oliver Zimmer (eds.), Power and the Nation in European History (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 248-27.
• ‘Catholic Politics in the Penal Era: Father Sylvester Lloyd and the Devlin Address of 1727’, in John Bergin et al. (eds.), New Perspectives on the Penal Laws: Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an Dá Chultúr, special issue no. 1 (2011), pp. 115-47.
• ‘Burke and Ireland’, in David Dwan and Chris Insole (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 181-194.
• ‘The Edge of Enlightenment: Ireland in the Eighteenth Century’, Modern Intellectual History (2012).
• ‘The Case of Ireland (1698) in Context: William Molyneux and His Critics’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 118C (2018).
• ‘The Politics of A Modest Proposal: Swift and the Irish Crisis of the Late 1720s’, Past & Present, 244: 1 (August 2019).
• ‘Swift, Locke and Slavery’, https://pastandpresent.org.uk/swift-locke-slavery/
• ‘Swift and the Sacramental Test: A New Attribution from 1719’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 35 (2020), pp. 11-50.