Irish Rebellion: Protestant Polemic, 1798–1900 by S. Andrews

By S. Andrews

The 1798 uprising unleashed a paper warfare regarding modern historians and pro-Establishment literary reports. This quantity lines this paper-warfare opposed to the historical past of the Union, Catholic Emancipation, younger eire, Gladstone and the Fenians, Victoria's jubilees, the 1898 centenary and the South African warfare.

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His Lordship requested that 'in any future edition of the book, the permission to dedicate may be omitted'. 2 20 Musgrave's Rebellions 21 In March 1802, the Monthly Review offered its own prospectus for the kind of history of 1798 that it wanted written. What was needed was an examination of 'the machine of the Irish government, connected by secret springs with the cabinet of London'. An analysis was required, revealing 'the causes, the origin, and the progress of disaffection' and how far 'it was owing to inequalities of fortunes and rights, to oppression, to national jealousy and hereditary animosities, to bigotry, and to delusive speculation'.

S The Monthly Review shrewdly notes that Plowden's readers should have been more fully 'apprized of the successive variations in the sentiments of the society of the Irish union [Le. the United Irishmen], as well as the dates of those changes'. So the reviewer recognizes that the 'treason' of the Musgrave as Reviewer 39 United Irishmen is not to be too readily accepted in Musgrave's simplistic terms. The Monthly concludes that 'in his account of the late horrible disturbances, Mr Plowden displays in general fairness and impartiality', noting that he also takes 'several opportunities of pointing out the mis-statements in Sir Richard Musgrave's memoirs, which are too numerous to allow any person to suppose that they were involuntary'.

The popery laws are upon the eve of being extinguished for ever; and may no wicked hand ever again attempt to divide the land, by making religious distinctions a mask, to divide - to disturb - to oppose it. Musgrave's gloss on these optimistic words is that 'according to this prediction, if the king, or any member of the lords or commons, or even the whole of them, should oppose the repeal of the restrictive laws which remain, they would be murdered by the banditti, who were at that time committing robbery and assassination'.

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