This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the last forty-five years, spanning economic, social, cultural and political history. Introduction and Bibliography of L.M. Cullen David Dickson (TCD)
'Energy rich, energy poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland 1600-1800' - T.C. Smout (University of St Andrews)
'Irish and Scottish development revisited' - T.M. Devine (University of Aberdeen)
'Did Ireland starve?' - L.A. Clarkson (QUB)
'Economic progress in the canal age' - Bruce M.S. Campbell (QUB)
'Tupac Amaru and Captain Right: A comparative perspective on eighteenth-century Ireland' - S.J. Connolly (QUB)
'Transportation from Ireland to North America, 1703-1789' - James Kelly (St Patrick's College)
'Louis Cullen: De l'histoire des communautés marchandes irlandaises en France, à celle des eaux-de-vie et de l'histoire économique de la France au xviiie siegraveicle' - J-P. Poussou (l'universiteacute; de Paris Sorbonne)
'New York City's Irish merchants and trade with the enemy during the Seven Years War' - Thomas M. Truxes (Trinity College, Connecticut)
'The social composition of the Catholic Convention, 1792-3' - C.J. Woods (Dictionary of Irish Biography project)
'Henrietta Battier: Poet and radical, 1751-1813' - Ann C. Kavanaugh (Concordia College, Minnesota)
'A house divided: The Loftus family, earls and marquesses of Ely, c. 1600-c. 1900' - A.P.W. Malcomson (PRONI)
'A bowling match at Castlemary, County Cork' - Mairéad Dunlevy (National Museum of Ireland) and Cormac Ó Gráda (UCD)
'Harry Boland's American Revolution, 1919-1921' - David Fitzpatrick (TCD)
'The cost of living in Ireland, 1698-1998' - Liam Kennedy (QUB)
'Irish trade in the nineteenth century' - Peter M. Solar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
'The Irish distilling industry under the Union' - Andy Bielenberg (NUI Cork)
'Moral hazard and quasi-central banking: Should the Munster Bank have been saved?' - Cormac Ó Gráda (UCD)
'Ireland and the bigger picture' - Kevin H. O'Rourke (TCD)
'The modernization of rural Ireland, c. 1920-c. 1960' - M.E. Daly (UCD)
'The roots of contemporary Irish economic development' - Kieran A. Kennedy (ESRI, Dublin)
David Dickson or Dick was a Scottish theologian. He was born in Glasgow about 1583, and educated at the university, where he graduated M.A., and was appointed one of the regents or professors of philosophy, a position limited to eight years. On the conclusion of his term of office Dickson was in 1618 ordained minister of the parish of Irvine. In 1620 he was named in a leet of seven to be a minister in Edinburgh, but since he was suspected of nonconformity his nomination was not pressed.
His various commentaries were published in conjunction with a number of other ministers, each of whom, in accordance with a project initiated by Dickson, had particular books of the 'hard parts of scripture' assigned them. He was also the author of a number of short poems on pious and serious subjects, to be sung with the common tunes of the Psalms. Among them were 'The Christian Sacrifice,' 'O Mother dear, Jerusalem,' 'True Christian Love,' and 'Honey Drops, or Crystal Streams.' Several of his manuscripts were printed among his Select Works, published with a life in 1838.
David Dickson was the son of a wealthy merchant in Glasgow. His early aspirations to enter the family business were diverted through an illness and a subsequently lengthy period of convalescence. The result was that he entered the University of Glasgow (then under Principal Robert Boyd) and prepared for the Christian ministry. Following graduation he remained in the University as a regent until, in 1618, he was called to the parish of Irvine in Ayrshire. Deprived of his ministry in 1622 by the Bishop of Glasgow for his opposition to the Five Articles, he was banished for a year to Turiff in Aberdeenshire, but on his return was the instrument in the hand of God of numerous conversions. It was out of his pastoral experience that his famous manual of spiritual counsel, Therapeutica Sacra, was written. In 1638 he was present at the famous Assembly which restored Presbyterian government in Scotland, and the following year was chosen Moderator of the Scottish Church.
In 1640 he became Professor of Divinity in Glasgow, transferring to Edinburgh ten years later. During that period he played a considerable part in establishing vital, orthodox Christianity throughout the land. He helped to draw up the Directory for Public Worship, and with James Durham compiled the Sum of Saving Knowledge (a work instrumental in later years in the conversion of Robert Murray M'Cheyne). Restoration troubles after the return of King Charles II in 1660, hastened his death. As the end drew near, he spoke the memorable words: 'I have taken all my good deeds, and all my bad and cast them in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace.'
His various commentaries were published in conjunction with a number of other ministers, each of whom, in accordance with a project initiated by Dickson, had particular books of the 'hard parts of scripture' assigned them. He was also the author of a number of short poems on pious and serious subjects, to be sung with the common tunes of the Psalms.
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