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Forgotten Facts of Irish History

Forgotten Facts of Irish History

Ardill, John Roche

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ISBN10: 1151316202
ISBN13: 9781151316202
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTORY. Love of one's country is generally accompanied by a knowledge of its history. In Ireland, where this love prevails to an exceptional degree, we might expect to find an intimacy with Irish history exceptionally wide-spread and accurate. This expectation is all the more reasonable because of the existence of bitter religious and political strife concerning, chiefly, wrongs and tyrannies alleged to have been inflicted in the past. Nations, or communities, no matter how bad their motives may be, do not, as a rule, engage in warlike conflict until they have carefully inquired into the subjects concerning which their disputes have arisen. To this rule the treatment which Irish history has received forms a remarkable and painful exception. The animosities for which the country is notorious are almost wholly the outcome of events within the last seven hundred years, that is, during English rule in Ireland; yet the history of the greater part of that period is, to the masses of the Irish people, a sealed book. Close on four hundred years elapsed from the Conquest to the Reformation, and during that long period the relations between the two sections of the inhabitants attained to a clear and well-defined character--the English despising and crushing the Irish and Anglo-Irish, and these, in return, hating and rebelling against the English. It is needless to say that the ideas, customs, social and racial controversies and party divisions which, in the progress of time, had become habitual--and habit is second nature --could, in no case, be easily and hastily rooted out. Those national characteristics which had been given four centuries to spring up and gain strength must continue to exert their influence for good or evil until, perhaps, four additiona...

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