Edited by Sean Patrick Donlan
Book description: Irish Academic Press, Dublin, September 2006. First edition. Hard cover. 8vo. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Book condition: As New. Condition of Dust Jacket: As New. Edmund Burke (c.1729-1797), orator, philosophical and political writer, British statesman, and opponent of the revolution in France, was among the most famous of eighteenth century Irishmen. Two centuries after his death, however, his legacy is still contested, both in Ireland and abroad. This is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Burke's complex relationship to his native Ireland. The book brings together thirteen authors, established experts and young scholars, from a wide variety of viewpoints and disciplines. The contributors discuss Burke's early years in the Blackwater Valley and in Ballitore, his experiences at the University of Dublin and as a Dublin journalist, his relationship to Irish history and aesthetics, his friendship with fellow Irishman Oliver Goldsmith, his numerous Irish links after he began his parliamentary career, his views on Irish politics and the Irish constitution, his thoughts on Ireland and India, the idea of union and political economy, religion and the Irish reception to his anti-revolutionary writings. These contributors include Michael Brown, Helen Burke, L.M. Cullen, Sean Patrick Donlan, Michael J. Griffin, Daire Keogh, Elizabeth Lambert, F.P. Lock and Bill McCormack. With Katherine O'Donnell, Eamon O'Flaherty, Tadhg O'Sullivan and Nathan Wallace. 274 pages with notes, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0716533650.
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