Author : D. George Boyce
Release : 2008-03-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 376/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century by : D. George Boyce
Download or read book Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century written by D. George Boyce. This book was released on 2008-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism. A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.