Author: James MacgeogheganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781425566548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade by the Abbt Mac-Geoghegan [Tr
Author: James MacgeogheganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781425566548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Ireland
Author: Gustave de BeaumontPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674031113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. Published to acclaim in France, Ireland remained in print there until 1914. The English edition, translated by William Cooke Taylor and published in 1839, was not reprinted. In a devastating critique of British policy in Ireland, Beaumont questioned why a government with such enlightened institutions tolerated such oppression. He was scathing in his depiction of the ruinous state of Ireland, noting the desperation of the Catholics, the misery of repeated famines, the unfair landlord system, and the faults of the aristocracy. It was not surprising the Irish were seen as loafers, drunks, and brutes when they had been reduced to living like beasts. Yet Beaumont held out hope that British liberal reforms could heal Ireland's wounds. This rediscovered masterpiece, in a single volume for the first time, reproduces the nineteenth-century Taylor translation and includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface to the 1863 French edition in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine. A classic of nineteenth-century political and social commentary, Beaumont's singular portrait offers the compelling immediacy of an eyewitness to history.
History of the County Longford
Author: James P. FarrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Longford (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880
Author: James KellyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110834075X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.
Dromore, an Ulster Diocese
Author: Edward Dupré AtkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dioceses
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Selections From Old Kerry Records
Author: Mary Agnes HicksonPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354412967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
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The Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland
Author: William Bullen MorrisPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016054935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Story of the Bagpipe
Author: William Henry Grattan FloodPublisher: London : The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Bagpipe
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
History and Antiquities of Kilkenny (County and City)
Author: William HealyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kilkenny (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society
Author: County Kildare Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description