Labour in Irish History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Labour in Irish HistoryIn other words, the Gaelic culture of the Irish chieftainry was mdely broken off in the seventeenth century, and the continental Schools of European despots implanted in its place in the minds of the Irish students, and sent them back to Ireland to preach a fanatical belief in royal and feudal prerogatives, as foreign to the genius of the Gael as was the English ruler to Irish soil. What a light this sheds upon Irish history of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries! And what a com mentary it is upon the real origin of that so-called Irish veneration for the aristocracy, of which the bourgeois Charlatans of Irish literature write so eloquently' That veneration is seen to be as much of an exotic, as much of an importation, as the aristocratic caste it venerated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.