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Arthur O'Connor was the most important conduit between French
republicanism and Irish political radicalism in the late 1790s ...
His State of Ireland, published in 1798, created a distinctively
Irish language of radical democracy out of French sources, by
fusing them with the local political tradition and Scottish
political economy.' So writes editor James Livesey in his
introduction to this new edition of The State of Ireland, first
published in pamphlet form in 1798 by Arthur O'Connor, a prominent
member of the United Irishmen. O'Connor brought to the
revolutionary movement of the 1790s a mind honed on the ideas of
Adam Smith - ideas that might not seem revolutionary today, but
that had radical implications as adapted by O'Connor and applied to
the bizarre political economy of eighteenth-century Ireland. As
perhaps the most steadfastly anti-sectarian member of the United
Irish movement, O'Connor viewed the vexed debates over 'Protestant
liberty' and Catholic Emancipation as distractions from the
fundamental questions of political and economic reform; he
supported emancipation as a necessary but by no means sufficient
element of a free, democratic Irish society. 'What O'Connor's work
reveals to us', Livesey writes, 'is the breadth of vision within
the United Irishmen and the novelty of their intervention in Irish
political culture ... O'Connor's text deserves to find a place in
the canon of classic political texts that have constructed and made
possible, or even imaginable, Irish democracy.'
With An Appendix, Containing The Speech Of Arthur O'Connor, On The
Catholic Question, In The House Of Commons Of Ireland, On Monday,
May 4, 1795. Also, His Letter To Lord Castlereach. Due to the very
old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to
read due to the blurring of the original text.
With An Appendix, Containing The Speech Of Arthur O'Connor, On The
Catholic Question, In The House Of Commons Of Ireland, On Monday,
May 4, 1795. Also, His Letter To Lord Castlereach. Due to the very
old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to
read due to the blurring of the original text.
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Thomas Addis Emmet, Arthur O'Connor
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With An Appendix, Containing The Speech Of Arthur O'Connor, On The
Catholic Question, In The House Of Commons Of Ireland, On Monday,
May 4, 1795. Also, His Letter To Lord Castlereach. Due to the very
old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to
read due to the blurring of the original text.
Together With The Examinations Of These Gentlemen Before The Secret
Committees Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons, In The Summer Of
1798.
Together With The Examinations Of These Gentlemen Before The Secret
Committees Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons, In The Summer Of
1798.
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