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Ireland : Social, Political, and Religious.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (444 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674031111
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: IrelandDDC classification:
  • 941.5
LOC classification:
  • DA975
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Historical Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- Historical Introduction -- First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535 -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Second Epoch: From 1535 to 1690 -- Chapter I: Religious Wars -- Third Epoch: From 1688 to 1755 -- Chapter I: Legal Persecution -- Chapter II: The Penal Laws -- Fourth Epoch: From 1776 to 1829 -- Revival and Enfranchisement of Ireland -- Chapter I: 1776-Effects of American Independence on Ireland -- Chapter II: The French Revolution-Its Effects in Ireland -- Chapter III: Catholic Emancipation in 1829 -- Part I -- Chapter I: External Appearance of Ireland. Misery of Its Inhabitants -- Chapter II: A Bad Aristocracy Is the Primary Cause of All the Evils of Ireland. The Faults of This Aristocracy Are, That It Is English and Protestant -- Section 1: Civil Consequences -- Section 2: Political Consequences -- Section 3: Religious Consequences -- Chapter III: Tithes -- Chapter IV: The North of Ireland -- Chapter V: Irish Character -- Chapter VI: Illusions of the Irish Aristocracy -- Part II (annexed to Part I in the translation) -- How Ireland Has Resisted Oppression -- Part III -- Chapter I: The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for the Evils of Ireland -- Chapter II: Remedies Proposed by the Author-The Civil, Political, and Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy Must Be Abolished -- Chapter III: It Would Be an Evil to Substitute a Catholic Aristocracy for the Protestant Aristocracy -- Chapter IV: How the Irish Aristocracy Should Be Abolished -- Part IV -- Chapter I: What Will England Do? -- Chapter II: Relations of English Parties to Ireland -- Chapter III: General Survey of the State of Ireland -- Preface, 1863: A Report on the Present State of Ireland (1862-1863) -- Chronology -- Index.
Summary: Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine.
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Intro -- Contents -- Historical Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- Historical Introduction -- First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535 -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Second Epoch: From 1535 to 1690 -- Chapter I: Religious Wars -- Third Epoch: From 1688 to 1755 -- Chapter I: Legal Persecution -- Chapter II: The Penal Laws -- Fourth Epoch: From 1776 to 1829 -- Revival and Enfranchisement of Ireland -- Chapter I: 1776-Effects of American Independence on Ireland -- Chapter II: The French Revolution-Its Effects in Ireland -- Chapter III: Catholic Emancipation in 1829 -- Part I -- Chapter I: External Appearance of Ireland. Misery of Its Inhabitants -- Chapter II: A Bad Aristocracy Is the Primary Cause of All the Evils of Ireland. The Faults of This Aristocracy Are, That It Is English and Protestant -- Section 1: Civil Consequences -- Section 2: Political Consequences -- Section 3: Religious Consequences -- Chapter III: Tithes -- Chapter IV: The North of Ireland -- Chapter V: Irish Character -- Chapter VI: Illusions of the Irish Aristocracy -- Part II (annexed to Part I in the translation) -- How Ireland Has Resisted Oppression -- Part III -- Chapter I: The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for the Evils of Ireland -- Chapter II: Remedies Proposed by the Author-The Civil, Political, and Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy Must Be Abolished -- Chapter III: It Would Be an Evil to Substitute a Catholic Aristocracy for the Protestant Aristocracy -- Chapter IV: How the Irish Aristocracy Should Be Abolished -- Part IV -- Chapter I: What Will England Do? -- Chapter II: Relations of English Parties to Ireland -- Chapter III: General Survey of the State of Ireland -- Preface, 1863: A Report on the Present State of Ireland (1862-1863) -- Chronology -- Index.

Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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