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Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Archibald Hamilton Rowan was born in London of Irish parents and educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. He became a Captain of the Grenadiers in the Huntington Militia before travelling to America as Secretary to Sir Charles Montague. Rowan returned to Ireland in 1784 and joined the United Irishmen in January, 1792. He became Secretary of the Society in which capacity he was arrested and charged with seditious libel for issuing the Address of the United Irishmen at a meeting in Black Lane, Dublin. Rowan was found guilty, sentenced to two years in prison and fined £500 with a further £2,000 to be paid before he could be released. In Kilmainham Gaol he was visited by Robert Emmet and Theobald Wolfe Tone. Rowan escaped from Kilmainham Gaol and went to France and America before receiving a Pardon in 1806. He returned to Ireland where his Autobiography was published posthumously in 1840 (rep.1980). The rebellion of 1798 was one of the bloodiest and most dramatic events in Irish history. Brought about by a combination of French-inspired republicanism, government brutality and the sufferings of a brutalised peasantry, it ran its bloody course in one summer, ending in the utter defeat of those who had sought to overthrow the existing social and political order. The immediate results included wholesale murder, destruction and deportation. The chief political consequence was the abolition of the Irish parliament and an enforced union with Britain. That union, although achieved by thoroughly unsavoury methods, might have succeeded, had the British government kept its promise to grant emancipation to the country's Catholic majority. The commitment was not kept, and the twin legacy of a brutally suppressed rebellion and broken promises was to colour and influence Anglo-Irish relations into the twentieth century. The rebellion and its aftermath also had a profound effect on religious and political loyalties in Ireland itself. In this way it exerted a major influence on the course of modern Irish history. Pakenham is the son of Lord Longford.

His Life and Reign. Cover slightly worn through use..Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,570pages. 1150g ISBN:

The Rede Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 23 April 1937.Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,36pages. 150g ISBN:

England 1937. Constable & Co. Ltd. Blue clothbd. 292 pp. Ills.

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