Dissent into Treason: Unitarians, King-Killers, and the Society of United Irishmen - Brossura

Whelan, Fergus

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0863224296 ISBN 13: 9780863224294

Casa editrice: Brandon, 2010

Riassunto

Everyone knows that Wolfe Tone laboured to bring together `Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter'. We all know - or at least we think we know - what `Protestant' and `Catholic' mean. But how many of us really understand the third force in eighteenth-century Ireland, the `Dissenter'? It is Fergus Whelan's great achievement in Dissent into Treason to reconstruct the mental and social world of the most advanced Dissenters of the revolutionary period, and to remind us of their distinctive contribution to Irish republicanism...

Drawing on the archive of the Dublin Unitarian Church, never before exploited by historians, Fergus Whelan provides a compelling portrait of Ireland's enlightened vanguard and helps us to understand the ideals that mobilised thousands of people in 1798. Ian MacBride, from the Foreword

In this radical, path-breaking book Fergus Whelan reveals the hidden history of the Protestant Dissenters whose Dublin congregations were established in the Cromwellian era and who went on to contribute their republican ideas to the United Irishmen.

Based substantially on hidden records of the Dublin Unitarian Church about its links with the United Irishmen, the truth revealed in this unique book will come as a shock to readers of all kinds of back-grounds on the island of Ireland, and in Britain, too.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brandon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0863224296
• ISBN 13: 9780863224294
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 282