The State of Ireland - Couverture rigide

O'Connor, Arthur

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1901866122 ISBN 13 : 9781901866124

Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

DR JAMES LIVESEY is a Lecturer in Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. His research deals with the development of democratic political culture in Revolutionary Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1901866122
• ISBN 13: 9781901866124
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Éditeur: Livesey James
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