Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Image Isaac Cruikshank, ‘Debating Society’, Courtesy of Lewis Walpope Library, 795.05.05.01, 1756?-1811?. Résumé Debating societies became well-established … 1750-1800‘ in James Kelly and Martyn Powell (eds), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), p. 368. 5 . John Money, ‘Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the … frequented debating societies, an increasing number of nights were devoted to social and family issues like marriage and courtship, with questions like: ‘Which is the more eligible for a wife, a lady of fortune without education, or a lady of …
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