...Ric Berman Formed in London in 1751, the Antients Grand Lodge of Freemasons was created as a rival to the pro-establishment Grand Lodge of England, itself created in 1717. The Antients was shaped by the Irish diaspora in London, although disaffection within London Freemasonry was then so great...

... The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750– 1939 (1999, 2011).2 However, there are notable shortcomings with each of these books, at least insofar as the eighteenth century is concerned. Den- vir’s book identifies this period as the time when the Irish in London first became “tolerably numerous” and provides...

... excluded from public office and subject to certain forms of legal discrimination, but their lives were in many ways indistinguishable from those of their Protestant counterparts. The Irish community in London merits recognition as an important part of the Irish Catholic “diaspora,” and some of its members...

... that is on its surface. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 London Irish Irish jokes Irish diaspora Stage Irishman ethnic stereotypes • The Irish Joke, Migrant Networks, and the London Irish in the 1680s...

... of the Irish diaspora were likewise active in the City’s markets, using similar networks to act both for themselves, and for their connections across the Irish Sea. This is an element of the London-Irish story that has received little attention from historians, despite pioneering scholarship...

... Scots- Irish Stuart tradition of esoteric and political Masonry. She details an ancient Hebraic, Cabalistic, Rosicrucian, and chivalric history Masonic R iva l r ies and Literar y Pol it ics 9 5 of Scots- Irish Masonry that was taken into exile by the Jacobites and was the tradition of Masonry inherited...

... settlers to colonization, casts light on a crucial, and gener- ally neglected, aspect of Irish thought in the period, showing the work of schol- ars from the Gaelic diaspora who traveled to the continent with their patrons, their books bearing the imprints of Paris, Prague, Rome, and Cologne. 70...

... (Shannon: Irish Univ., 1970), vi. This description, in a slightly different form, also appears in Wogan’s description of the daughters in April 1718, Calendar of the Stuart Papers, vol. 4 (London, HMSO, 1916), 388–90. See also 95–96. 24. For an extended discussion of the wealth, especially...

... in the Eighteenth Century. The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 47 (2006): 97-329. Pinfold, John, ed. The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings for and against (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007). Pp. 398. 21 ills. $20. ISBN 1-85124-316-x Pittock, Murray. Scottish and Irish Romanticism...