Forgotten Facts of Irish History (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Forgotten Facts of Irish History (Classic Reprint) written by John Roche Ardill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forgotten Facts of Irish History Love of one's country is generally accompanied by a knowledge of its history. In Ireland, where this love prevails to an exceptional degree, we might expect to find an intimacy with Irish history exceptionally wide-spread and accurate. This expectation is all the more reasonable because of the existence of bitter religious and political strife concerning, chiefly, wrongs and tyrannies alleged to have been inflicted in the past. Nations, or communities, no matter how bad their motives may be, do not, as a rule, engage in warlike conflict until they have carefully inquired into the subjects concerning which their disputes have arisen. To this rule the treatment which Irish history has received forms a remarkable and painful exception. The animosities for which the country is notorious are almost wholly the outcome of events within the last seven hundred years, that is, during English rule in Ireland; yet the history of the greater part of that period is, to the masses of the Irish people, a sealed book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.