Ireland : : Social, Political, and Religious / / Gustave de Beaumont; W. C Taylor.

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• VerfasserIn: de Beaumont, Gustave,
• TeilnehmendeR: Taylor, W. C,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Ireland, Gustave de Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine. A classic of nineteenth-century political and social commentary, Beaumont's singular portrait offers the compelling immediacy of an eyewitness to history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Tyranny in Ireland? / Garvin, Tom / Hess, Andreas -- Note on the Text -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Historical Introduction -- First Epoch: From 1169 to 1535 -- Second Epoch: From 1535 to 1690 -- Third Epoch: From 1688 to 1755 -- Fourth Epoch: From 1776 to 1829 -- PART I -- I. External Appearance of Ireland. Misery of Its Inhabitants -- 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 -- III. Tithes -- IV. Some Remarks on the North of Ireland -- V. General Consequences from What Has Preceded- Character of the Irishman-Explanation of Its Faults -- VI. Summary of the Preceding Chapters- Illusions of the Irish Aristocracy -- PART II -- How Ireland, Aided by the Liberties She Received or Acquired, Has Resisted Oppression -- VII. An Examination of the Causes by Which Ireland, at Present a Free Country, Tends to Become a Democratic Country -- PART III -- I. The Three Principal Remedies That Have Been Proposed for Irish Evils -- II. Remedies Proposed by the Author-The Civil, Political, and Religious Privileges of the Aristocracy Must Be Abolished -- III. It Would Be an Evil to Substitute a Catholic Aristocracy for the Protestant Aristocracy -- IV. How and byWhat Means Aristocracy Should Be Abolished in Ireland -- PART IV -- I. What Will England Do? -- II. What Each of the English Parties Could Accomplish for Ireland -- III. General Survey of the State of Ireland- Conclusion-A Glance at the Political and Religious Future of the Country -- Preface, 1863: A Report on the Present State of Ireland (1862-1863) -- Chronology. Index -- Chronology -- Index