Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Portrait Of Lord Cornwallis Pitt, when making his famous defence of the Union project in January 1799, had broadly hinted that, should success in this be achieved, the Catholic disabilities would probably soon be removed. That he really desired that this should be done, and done so quickly as to seem a direct [...]

While the creation of new literature ceased during most of the nineteenth century a new interest, scholarly and historical rather than literary, was developed in the preservation and study of existing literature. It was an interest shared in only by an intellectual and cultured minority, but it resulted in the publication of a number of [...]