books.google.com - Between the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political sphere—women, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the laboring and agrarian classes—began to imagine themselves as civil subjects with a stake in matters of...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Nation_of_Politicians.html?id=ThllM8ylgY0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Nation of Politicians