Author: Patrick F. KavanaghPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798
Author: Patrick F. KavanaghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Shadow of a Year
Author: John GibneyPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299289532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal “massacre,” this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike.
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union
Author: Jim SmythPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521661096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The essays in this collection focus on United Irish propaganda and organisation before and during the 1798 rebellion.
A Popular History of Ireland
Author: David Power ConynghamPublisher: New York ; Montreal : D. & J. Sadlier
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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A Popular History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics, Etc
Author: Thomas D'Arcy MacgeePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books relating to Ireland formed by Stephen J. Richarson [i.e. Richardson] of New York City
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Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Bloody Red Hand
Author: Derek LundyPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307369900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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A bestselling chronicler of the sea turns to a trio of his own ancestors to see what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. The name “Lundy” is synonymous with traitor in Ulster. Derek Lundy’s first ancestral subject was the Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, just before it came under siege by the Catholic Irish army of James II. For reasons that remain ambiguous, Robert ordered the gates of the city opened in surrender. Protestant hard-liners staged a coup de ville and drove him away in disgrace, a traitor to the cause. But Robert is more memorable for his peace-seeking moderation than for the treachery the standard history attributes to him. William Steel Dickson’s legacy is a little different: a Presbyterian minister born in the late 18th century, he preached with famous eloquence in favour of using whatever means necessary to resist the tyranny of the English, including joining forces with the Catholics in armed rebellion. Finally, there is “Billy” Lundy, born in 1890, the antithesis of the ecumenical William, and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants had become by the beginning of World War I – a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the project of an independent Ireland. The lives of Robert Lundy, William Steel Dickson and Billy Lundy encapsulate many themes in the Ulster past. In telling their stories, Derek Lundy lays bare the harsh and murderous mythologies of Northern Ireland and gives us a revision of its history that seems particularly relevant in today’s world. Excerpt from The Bloody Red Hand: The other thing I remember is the look the young man gave me, after he had taken the cash, put his pistol away and was standing with his hands in his jacket pockets. It wasn’t the expression of someone who was thinking of shooting me too; I never had that feeling. But the way he looked at me was so familiar – wary and calculating. Many people in Belfast had stared in the same way since I’d arrived for a visit. For a long time, I couldn’t understand what it meant. Eventually, I knew. They were trying to decide “what foot I kicked with” – what religion I was. There were supposed ways to tell, subtle indicators. Was I someone they should fear? Or was I one of them? That was what the armed robber was doing, too. He had just shot a man who knew him by his first name. But he was looking at me, the stranger, and trying to figure out whether I was a Prod or a Taig.
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798
Author: William Hamilton MaxwellPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Alphabetic Catalogue of the English Books in the Circulating Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Authors, Titles and Subjects
Author: Cleveland Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
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