The Historic Case for Irish Independence

Darrell Figgis

The Historic Case for Irish Independence

1918

Creation of a National Polity, 300-1000 A.D.

State Stability, 360-1000 A.D.

Foundation of the State, 200-1000 A.D.

Re-Creation of European Culture, 600-1100 A.D.

Foreign Military Invasion, 1168-1171

Foreign State Assumption and National War, 1171 A.D.

Nature of the National War, 1171-1315

Formal Repudiation of Foreign Dominion, 1315-1318

Re-creation of National State and Renewal of the Life of the Nation, 1319-1367

Statutes of Kilkenny, 1367 A.D.

England's Difficulty: Ireland's Revival of Prosperity, 1319-1486 A.D.

Renewal of War by Statecraft, 1486-1537

Nature of the War, 1500-1541

Extension of English Crown and Polity over Irish Crown and Polity: the Manner of its Accomplishment, 1541-1558

The First Plantations: Their Cause, Meaning and Effect, 1558-1590

Hugh O'Neill, 1590-1603

Further Plantations and Uprooting of National Polity, 1603-1641

Contrast of the Two Contending Conceptions of Civilisation 1550-1641

Confiscation by Legal Craft, 1628-1641

National Bondage, 1608-1641

Renewal of War, 1641-1650

"Hell or Connacht," 1653-1654

The Return of the Nation to its Old Lands, 1660-1689

Renewed War, 1689-1691

Penal Code 1691-1795

State of the Nation, 18th Century

The Rise of the Garrison, 1698-1779

Its Demand for Independence, 1779-1783

The Character of Grattan's Parliament, and its Effect on the Nation, 1783-1800

The Rising of 1798

Act of Union, 1800

Meaning of Act of Union and its Effect, 1800

Robert Emmet, 1803

The Forces Behind Daniel O'Connell, 1823-1829

The Failure of Daniel O'Connell, 1829-1843

Starvation, 1845-1851

Young Ireland, 1843-1848

Risings the Heir to Risings, 1848-1867

The Land War and its Significance, 1848-1903

War in the Enemy's Camp, 1877-1903

The Awakening of the Nation, 1891-1913

Declaration of Independence, 1914-1916

Featured Books

An American widow’s account of her travels in Ireland in 1844–45 on the eve of the Great Famine:

Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger

Sailing from New York, she set out to determine the condition of the Irish poor and discover why so many were emigrating to her home country.

Mrs Nicholson’s recollections of her tour among the peasantry are still revealing and gripping today.

The author returned to Ireland in 1847–49 to help with famine relief and recorded those experiences in the rather harrowing:Annals of the Famine in Ireland.

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The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel is based upon the diary of Robert Whyte who, in 1847, crossed the Atlantic from Dublin to Quebec in an Irish emigrant ship. His account of the journey provides invaluable eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy that many emigrants had to face en route to their new lives in Canada and America. The book is also available in Kindle.

The Irish in America by John F. Maguire provides a substantial and invaluable account of the extreme difficulties faced by pioneer Irish immigrants in North America during the 19th Century. The book is also available in Kindle.

The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of how the hardy breed of men and women, who in America came to be known as the ‘Scotch-Irish’, was forged in the north of Ireland during the seventeenth century. It relates the circumstances under which the great exodus to the New World began, the trials and tribulations faced by these tough American pioneers and the enduring influence they came to exert on the politics, education and religion of the country.

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