Charles Foran

Website Links

Description

Next came the history. The 18th century, I was taught at graduate school in Dublin, functioned as a kind of interim. We studied the collapse of old Ireland, culminating in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. We charted did we ever in 1983-84, with the latest 'Troubles' raging in the North the rise of the modern state, borne, it was argued, from the rebellion of 1798. But in between those dates was little or nothing. Nothing major, at least. Nothing to merit the rank of history with a capital 'H.' There were the Penal Laws, petty legislation aimed at extinguishing Catholic ownership of land. There were famines and foreign wars and some unusually bad weather.

Companies nearby