The Repealers

The Repealers
Author: Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1833
Genre: Ireland
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The Repealers

The Repealers
Author: Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1833
Genre:
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Making Toleration

Making Toleration
Author: Scott Sowerby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674075919

Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleration at the expense of his throne. The Glorious Revolution was in fact a conservative counter-revolution against the movement for enlightened reform that James himself encouraged and sustained.

American Slavery, Irish Freedom

American Slavery, Irish Freedom
Author: Angela F. Murphy
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-05-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807137448

In American Slavery, Irish Freedom, Angela F. Murphy examines the interactions among abolitionists, Irish nationalists, and American citizens as the issues of slavery and abolition complicated the first transatlantic movement for Irish independence. For Irish Americans, the call of Old World loyalties, perceived duties of American citizenship, and regional devotions collided as the slavery issue intertwined with their efforts on behalf of their homeland. By looking at the makeup and rhetoric of the American repeal associations, the pressures on Irish Americans applied by both abolitionists and American nativists, and the domestic and transatlantic political situation that helped to define the repealers' response to antislavery appeals, Murphy investigates and explains why many Irish Americans did not support abolitionism.