1. On the early history of the United Irishmen see R. B. McDowell, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760–1801 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979) pt III;
2. T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan (eds), A New History of Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) iv, ch. 11.
3. The most detailed recent account of English popular radicalism is A. Goodwin, The Friends of Liberty: the English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution (Hutchinson, 1979).
4. For a good introductory text try H. T. Dickinson, British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789–1815 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
5. A very useful collection of LCS records is M. Thale (ed.), Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792–1799 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).