Edmund Burke and Ireland / Thomas H.D. Mahoney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahoney, Thomas H. D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797--Homes and haunts--Ireland.

Burke, Edmund.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797--Knowledge and learning--Ireland.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.

Intellectual life.

Ireland.

Ireland--Politics and government--1760-1820.

Politics and government.

Ireland--Intellectual life--18th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 413 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1960.

Contents:

Early days in Ireland and England

Burke enters parliament

Member of parliament for Bristol

Severance of the Bristol connection and its aftermath

Burke's opposition to Pitt's plan for Irish Free Trade

The Irish mission of Richard Burke, Jr.

Partial Catholic emanciption

The projected Irish viceroyship of Fitzwilliam

Fitzwilliam's brief and tragic tenure of office

The end of a 'great, just, and honourable cause," 1795-1797

Retrospect

Appendix I: The penal law of 1704 (excerpts)

Appendix II: The penal law of 1709 (precis)

Appendix III: The Catholic Relief Act of 1778 (excerpts)

Appendix IV: The Catholic Relief Act of 1782 (excerpts)

Appendix Appendix V: The Catholic Relief Act of 1793 (excerpts)

Appendix VI: The penal laws in effect after 1793 (summary).

Notes:

"A note on sources and a selected bibliography": pages 345-350. Includes index.

OCLC:

399584