Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 1 (1839)
Volume 1 of a 2 volume work on the history and current economic and political problems of Ireland. Vol. 1 contains the historical section and his analysis of the Irish aristocracy. This books seems to have been hastily translated into English in the same year it was originally published in French, and rearranged and edited for the English edition. It is missing some of the footnotes which can only be found in the French edition.
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, ed. W.C. Taylor (London: Richard Bentley, 1839). Vol. 1.
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- Author: Gustave de Beaumont
- Editor: William Cooke Taylor
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS: OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
- Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious. Vol. I
- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
- FIRST EPOCH.: From 1169 to 1535.
- CHAPTER I.
- Sect. I.—: Political Condition of Ireland in the twelfth century.
- Sect. II.—: The still recent Invasion of the Danes.
- Sect. III.—: Influence of the Court of Rome.
- CHAPTER II.
- Sect. I.—: Political condition of the Irish an obstacle to the Conquest.
- Sect. II.—: Second obstacle to the completion of the Conquest: the relation of the Anglo-Norman conquerors to England, and of England to them.
- Sect. III.—: Third obstacle to the Conquest; the condition imposed on the natives by the conquerors.
- SECOND EPOCH.: From 1535 to 1690.
- CHAPTER I.: RELIGIOUS WARS.
- Sect. I.—: How, when England became Protestant, it must have desired that Ireland should become so likewise.
- Sect. II.—: Of the Causes that prevented Ireland from becoming Protestant.
- Sect. III.—: How England rendered Ireland Protestant—Protestant Colonisation—Elizabeth and James I.
- Sect. IV.—: Protestant Colonisation—Charles I.
- Sect. V.—: Civil War—The Republic—Cromwell.
- Sect. VI.—: The Restoration of Charles II.
- THIRD EPOCH,: From 1688 to 1755.
- CHAPTER I.: LEGAL PERSECUTION.
- CHAPTER II.: THE PENAL LAWS.
- Special Character of the Penal Laws.
- Another special Character of the Penal Laws.
- Legal Persecution was not restrained by the limits of Law.
- Why Persecutions continued when Religious Passion ceased.
- Which of the Penal Laws were executed, and which not.
- THE WHITEBOYS.
- FOURTH EPOCH,: From 1776 to 1829. REVIVAL AND ENFRANCHISEMENT OF IRELAND.
- CHAPTER I.: EFFECTS OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ON IRELAND.
- Sect. I.—: First Reform of the Penal Laws, 1778.
- Sect. II.—: Second Effect of American Independence on Ireland, (1778 to 1779.) The Irish Volunteers.
- Sect. III.—: Independence of the Irish Parliament.
- Sect. IV.—: Legal Consequences of the Declaration of Irish Independence.
- Sect. V. 1782.—: Abolition of certain Penal Laws. Consequences of the Declaration of Parliamentary Independence.
- Sect. VI.—: Continuation of the Volunteer Movement. Convention of 1783.
- Sect. VII.—: Corruption of the Irish Parliament.
- Sect. VIII.—: Is a servile Parliament of any use?
- CHAPTER II.: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION—ITS EFFECTS IN IRELAND.
- Sect. I.: 1789.
- A SONG OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN.*
- Sect. II.—: Other Effects of the French Revolution. Abolition of Penal Laws.
- Sect. III.—: Other Consequences of the French Revolution.—Re-action.
- Sect. IV.—: French Invasion of Ireland. Insurrection of 1798.
- Consequences of the Insurrection of 1798.—The Union.
- Constitutional and Political Effect of the Union.
- CHAPTER III.: CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION IN 1829.
- FIRST PART: IRELAND, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS.
- CHAPTER I.: EXTERNAL APPEARANCE OF IRELAND. MISERY OF ITS INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER II.: A BAD ARISTOCRACY IS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF ALL THE EVILS OF IRELAND.—THE FAULTS OF THIS ARISTOCRACY ARE, THAT IT IS ENGLISH AND PROTESTANT.
- Section I.: CIVIL CONSEQUENCES.
- Section II.: POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES.
- Section III.: RELIGIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
- NOTES.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- Section I.
- Subsection I.
- Subsection II.
- Section II.
- Subsection I.
- Subsection II.
- Subsection III.
- Subsection IV.
- Section III.
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