Historical Essays 1939-2001: A Miscellany

by R.B. McDowell

This miscellany gathers together essays and papers written over a span of sixty-odd years. Some are hitherto unpublished, others disinterred from rare and learned periodicals: Together they form a scholarly and diverting mosaic of political and social life in Ireland over the past half-millennium. They take for subjects both individuals and institutions. McDowell examines Swift as a political thinker, Burke and the law, John Hely-Hutchinson, provost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843510286
• ISBN13: 9781843510284
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 263 Pages