The fall and rise of the Irish nation

Abstract

This is a survey of the origins and development of the Question in 18th and early 19th century Ireland. One of the Beresford family remarked in 1820: When I was a boy the 'Irish People' meant the Protestants, now it means the Roman Catholics. In essence this book traces how that change came about and explains its causes. Contents: The Seventeenth Century Background, 1600-1690; The Penal Laws: Politics and the Protestant Nation, 1690-1750; The Emergence of the Question in the 1750s; European Enlightenment, English Perceptions and Irish Politics, 1750-1775; The Relief Acts of 1778 and 1782; The Question and Parliamentary Reform in the 1780s; The Relief Act of 1792; The 1793 Revolution; Catholic Defenderism...Protestant Ascendancy: Ireland 1784-95; To Rally the Protestants: Ireland 1795-98; Rebellion and Union, 1798-1801; The Rise of the Nation, Part 1, 1801-12; The Rise of the Nation, Part 2, 1813-23; Epilogue: The Winning of Emancipation, 1823-29; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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