Titles by Hercules Langrishe

1729 – 1811

Hercules Langrishe was a lifelong friend of Edmund Burke and wrote about American independence and local self-government.

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Hercules Langrishe presented a formidable figure to the advocates of administration because he was himself fluent in both the idioms of finance and politics and understood the analogous relationship of Ireland and the American colonies to England’s parliament. He was a lifelong friend of Edmund Burke, but chose to remain in Ireland, serving as a member of the Irish Parliament from Knocktopher. As such, he was intimately aware of and sympathetic to demands for local self-government.

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Considerations on the dependencies of Great Britain. With observations on a pamphlet, intitled, The present state of the nation.

Hercules Langrishe

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