Grattan: A Life - Hardcover

McDowell, R. B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901866726 ISBN 13: 9781901866728

Verlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2001

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'Grattan's Parliament' has a permanent place in Irish historical lore, but who was Henry Grattan? R. B. McDowell's biography traces the varied career of this elusive figure whose political fortunes were as tempestuous as his own character.
McDowell begins with Grattan's family background and his early years in the Irish House of Commons, during which, at the age of thirty-six, he achieved his greatest triumph: the granting of 'legislative independence' to that body. Many of the years of 'Grattan's Parliament' were years of opposition for Henry Grattan, whose talent was for oratory - sometimes scurrilous, sometimes sublime - rather than for administration. McDowell documents Grattan's epic political struggle with Henry Flood for control over the soul of the Irish 'patriot' faction, and gives a rich description of the atmosphere of the Dublin parliament during these heady years.
After the passage of the Act of Union, Grattan made a dramatic political comeback as a Westminster MP. There he became the outstanding parliamentary advocate of Catholic emancipation, but he often clashed with Daniel O'Connell and other Catholic leaders because of his continuing support for a Crown veto over appointments to Catholic bishoprics - a measure he believed necessary to make emanciption politically palatable. He remained a vigorous parliamentarian until well into his seventies.

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R. B. McDowell is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.

R.B. MCDOWELL is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His works include Irish Public Opinion 1750-1800, The Church of Ireland 1869-1969, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801, Land and Learning: Two Irish Clubs, and Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists.

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• Verlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1901866726
• ISBN 13: 9781901866728
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
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