The essays in this collection cover several centuries of Irish
history and discuss a variety of topics. Yet, as Professor Beckett
points out in his preface, they are linked by a crucial central
theme; in one way or another the essays all touch on 'those
elements of conflict that have played such a large part in
Ireland's past and have left a troublesome legacy to the present
generation'. The opening essay, his inaugural lecture as the first
Professor of Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast, lays the
foundation for the rest by discussing in a general way the chief
problem facing the Irish historian: the lack of any clear pattern
of development into which the conflicts presented in the other
essays can be readily placed.
The topics discussed range from the question of Irish-Scottish
relations in the seventeenth century to the role played by Edward
Carson in the politics of Ulster, and include a previously
unpublished essay on 'Swift: the priest in politics'.
'. He] brings out, with his usual lucidity and detachment, how
at all levels and in all periods of modern Irish history, friction
of a peculiarly abrasive kind has been almost a law of life.'
"Times Literary Supplement"
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