Irish History and The Irish Question Goldwin Smith 9781540526625 Books
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A brilliant resume of Irish history and of the past relations between England and Ireland in the endeavor to ascertain the precise status of the Irish question today and to provide for its rational solution to the future. Written in a spirit of the most enlightened sympathy and understanding.
"A brilliant narrative of Irish history from the earliest times to Gladstone's day. To this Goldwin Smith has added a chapter on Ireland's political relation to England, and a chapter by another hand on the Irish Land Code. For his narrative Mr. Smith has selected what is most significant and of permanent influence; his selection is usually good. His condensation is masterful. To the French invasion under Hoche, for instance, Lecky gives forty pages; Mr. Smith gives twenty lines; Lecky argues the Fitzwilliam episode in sixty pages; Mr. Smith states it in less than two. Transitions are so skillfully made that the reader makes the leap of a century unawares; there no dates as signposts of his rapid progress. Controversial points are affirmed with a decisiveness which leaves no chance for the hesitation of doubt or the delay of pro and con. Great men, great deeds, great horrors crowd upon each other with dramatic distinctness. And still the thread of the narrative stands out clearly and binds the whole together. The style has all the vigor and freshness of youth, though the author is past four-score. The sentences are short, crisp, and suggestive. It is interesting and stimulating, but not always impartial or impersonal. The author does not hesitate to judge past history according to his own view of present politics....'Of all histories the history of Ireland is the saddest.' These words open the first chapter, and form the refrain of the whole book....As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent. It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of the author's 'United States' and 'United Kingdom'; its general characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books, but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States." -The American Historical Review
CONTENTS
I From Early Times to Edward I (1272)
II Edward I to Henry VII (1272-1509)
III Henry VIII to Mary (1509-1558)
IV Elizabeth to James I (1558-1603)
V James I (1603-1625)
VI Charles I to the Protectorate (1625-1660)
VII The Restoration (1660)
VIII The Revolution (1688)
IX The Penal Code (1695-1727)
X Anne to the Revolution of 1782 (1702-1782)
XI The Revolution of 1782 and the Rebellion of 1798
XII Union (1801)
XIII Daniel O’Connell (1823-1847)
XIV Gladstone (1868-1893)
XV The Present State of the Question
ACCOUNT OF THE IRISH LAND CODE
By Hugh J. McCann, B.L., of the Irish Bar
Irish History and The Irish Question Goldwin Smith 9781540526625 Books
I bought the book looking for insight into a perticular time in Irish history and was surprised by the level of detail Goldwin Smith put into that part of Brian Boru's life. Well doneProduct details
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Even though my father was Irish, I have known only the barest facts of this time for Irish people. Though disturbing in many ways, their lives were not easy at this time, I found the whole story interesting and it helped to partly clarify some of the workings of my own family, and my father's, as I knew it.
Great Book!! Still applies today as it did in the past. Discrimination still apparent. One's heritage should not be a reason for the awful treatment that these people received.
great read
This is an older book(100+ years). Some of it is a little difficult to read and really dry. It reads like an old school book.
Practically unreadable, imperialist and borderline racist. It's an old book, so probably normal for the upper class British mindset at the time.
A good read
I bought the book looking for insight into a perticular time in Irish history and was surprised by the level of detail Goldwin Smith put into that part of Brian Boru's life. Well done
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