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Garvin show's the book's significance as demanding the Church should justify its behaviour in relation to its professed beliefs and extensive record of pragmatic co-operation with Dublin Castle, rather than facile populist assertions that 'the Irish people never accepted British rule'. Patrick Maume, Queen's University, Belfast Irish Political Studies 14 1999 written with the urgency of troubled times and still retain[s its] freshness and argumentative force: excellent material for seminar discussions... well introduced by Garvin. His biographical essays are thoughtful, useful, and adopt an engaging combative stance on behalf of the writers. the first entries in a welcome new series. They are hardily and handsomely constructed: a credit to their equally welcome new publisher. Peter Hart, Queen's University Belfast Irish Studies Review 7 (3) 1999 these essays ... in their 'political incorrectness'...have much with which to challenge us. Each essay is bracing for its laconic style and fearless exploration of 'untrodden paths'. The Furrow July/Aug 1999 University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty 'Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity. Books Ireland Nov 2007 Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press. Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008

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