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Some Revelations in Irish History; Or, Old Elements of Creed and Class Conciliation in Ireland
Some Revelations in Irish History Or Old Elements of Creed and Class Conciliation in Ireland Author:Thomas Sheridan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Subjects: Political science Ireland Great Britain Law History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Political Science / General Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. I. In Ireland, during all ages, elements have exifted for uniting all its people, of every origin, and every creed. The ancient faft on that head confirmed by the recent experience of Thomas Drummond. Illuftrations of the faft in the laft two centuries, -- the cafe of the Ulfter Settlements by citizens of London; and the prodigious moral power of Dr. Bedell of Eflex, Lord Bifhop of Kilmore, from 1619 to the Rebellion of 1641. II. The Anglo-Irifh family of the Sheridansof the iyth century -- fruitsof both influences. III. The Trait of 1677 and 168 5, on Parliamentary andall focial reforms, byThomasSheridan, a member of that family. IV. Thomas Sheridan, Secretary to the Government and a Privy Councillor in Ireland, 1687. His exile in France; and his hiftory of the reign of James II., a MS. preferved in the Royal Library at Windfor. The Stuart MSS. at home and abroad. HE hiftory of Ireland is mown in the few contents of this little volume, not to be wanting in evidence favourable to the advent of a peaceful and profperous union of that ifland of Celts, or by whatever name its mixed inhabitants of many origins are to be known, with the people of Great Britain, compofed of no lefs diverfe races. Hitherto, indeed, fuch union, although earneftly fought by the wifeft, has been utterly unattainable in confequence of the deep-feated vici...« less