Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment

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Four Courts Press, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 468 pages
Two crucial features of this book are the analysis of Irish Jacobite poetry in its wider 'British' and European contexts and the inclusion of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'. Both Jacobites and anti-Jacobites were obsessed with the vicissitudes of eighteenth-century European politics, and the fluctuating fortunes of the Stuarts in international diplomacy. European high politics, invasion rumours and recruitment for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish political commentators, at home and abroad. --book jacket.

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the Shipwreck 16921702
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