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SEMINOLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY DA947 ,B4 1976 Beckett, James Camlin, 19 000 The Anglo-Irish tradition 260101 3 5601 00008691 2 “The people with whom we are here concerned are in truth Irish, without any hyphenated prefix; and the fact that they must be distinguished by some special term simply reflects the unhealed divisions of Ireland, past and present.” - From the Prologue The Anglo-Irish Tradition J. C. BECKETT Professor Beckett offers a lively and fascinating account of a central force in the history of Ireland: the people known as the Anglo-Irish. He describes the part played by those Englishmen who, from the twelfth to the seventeenth century, settled in Ireland, acquired property there, and took part in public life, the professions, business, and the arts. He traces their history down to the Treaty of 1921, and discusses briefly the significance for Ireland of their rapid decline, both in numbers and influence, after that date. Maintaining that the Anglo-Irish - among them. Swift and Burke, Goldsmith and Grattan - are as truly Irish as their Gaelic neighbors, he shows that for much of the eight centuries after the first English incursion they helped alter the course of Irish history. They are “in Yeats’s famous phrase, ‘no petty people’,” Professor Beckett concludes. “Ireland without them would be not only a different but a poorer country.” J. C. BECKETT, until his retirement in 1975, was Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast, where he is now Chairman of the Committee of Management, Institute of Irish Studies. He is the author of a number of books, including Confrontations: Studies in Irish History and The Making of AT tern Ireland. ISBN 0-8014-1056-8 ♦ * ■A THE ANGLO-IRISH TRADITION by the same author THE MAKING OF MODERN IRELAND CONFRONTATIONS: STUDIES IN IRISH history THE ANGLO-IRISH TRADITION J.C. BECKETT LIBRARY SEMINOLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE REC. DEC 15 1977 SANFORD, FLORIDA 32771 Cornell University Press ITHACA, NEW YORK (c) 1976 by J. C. Beckett All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information address Cornell University Press, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published in 1976 International Standard Book Number 0-8014-1056-8 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-20093 Printed in Great Britain by Ebenezer Baylis and Son Ltd. The Trinity Press, Worcester, and London Contents Preface page 7 Prologue 9 I England’s Oldest Colony 13 II The Foundation of Protestant Ascendancy 28 III ‘The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation’ 44 IV The Eighteenth-century Achievement 63 V ‘An English Garrison’ 84 VI Surrender 111 VII The Tradition in Literature 131 Epilogue 148 Index 155 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/angloirishtraditOOOObeck
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