James KellyJames Kelly is Professor of History at Dublin City University. He is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and President of the Irish Economic and Social History Society. His publications include That Damn'd Thing Called Honour: Duelling in Ieland, 1750–1860 (1995); Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1998); Poynings' Law and the Making of Law in Ireland, 1660–1800 (2007); and, as editor (with Martyn Powell), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010); (with Mary Ann Lyons), The Proclamations of Ireland, 1660–1820 (5 vols, 2014), and (with Elizabeth FitzPatrick) of Food and Drink in Ireland (2016). His book Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840 (2014) won the special commendation prize offered by the National University of Ireland in 2016. Read More Read Less