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Benedict Fitzpatrick

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Description:Ireland and the making of Britain (1921)Author: Fitzpatrick, Benedict, b. 1881Subject: Irish -- England; Ireland -- Civilization; Ireland -- History To 1172; Great Britain -- CivilizationLanguage: EnglishTHIS book grew into being as the earlier half of a work describing the efforts of medieval Irishmen to establish civilization in continental Europe as well as in Britain following the downfall of the Roman Empire. As the work neared completion it was seen that the activities of Irishmen in relation to the different peoples inhabiting Britain would find their best repre- sentation in a separate and independent volume. The relations prevailing between medieval Ireland on the one hand and medieval Wales and Scotland on the other were relations of a kind that did not subsist between Ireland and any other country. In both these countries of Britain there were Irish military conquests and political settle- ments as well as Irish cultural and missionary enterprises, and both Wales and Scotland endured for centuries as Irish provinces, colonies and political dependencies. Among the English the work of medieval Irishmen par- took more exclusively of the character of Irish missionary and cultural work on the Continent. Nevertheless the relations between Ireland and England in that era were relations of a special and peculiar kind, and if England before the so-called Norman Conquest was not a political dependency of Ireland it was in a true sense a moral and intellectual dependency. As long as England remained really England its people looked not to the Continent but to Ireland for that sus- tenance and support without which its uncertain civiliza- tion might never have come into being or might have died almost at birth. Ireland, the mainspring of English civilization, acted also as its foster-mother till the in- vestiture of the land by Romance rule, learning, and speech, consequent on the invasion of the Norman French, made culture in England at last self-sustaining and self- perpetuating. Between the era of the Roman and the era of the Nor- man the Irish race was the master race in Britain, evoking the spontaneous homage and emulation of Pict, Briton, Angle and Saxon by reason of its rounded national life and rich and stable civilization, on which these exterior peoples were permitted to draw freely as the main reser- voir of their aspiration and development. Withdraw out of the picture Ireland and the influences that emanated from it and it is safe to say that the history of what are now called the British Isles between the departure of the Roman and the arrival of the Norman would be represented by a blank almost as complete as the vacuum registered between the arrival of the English in what is now England and the arrival of Augustine and Aidan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ireland and the making of Britain. To get started finding Ireland and the making of Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Ireland and the making of Britain (1921)Author: Fitzpatrick, Benedict, b. 1881Subject: Irish -- England; Ireland -- Civilization; Ireland -- History To 1172; Great Britain -- CivilizationLanguage: EnglishTHIS book grew into being as the earlier half of a work describing the efforts of medieval Irishmen to establish civilization in continental Europe as well as in Britain following the downfall of the Roman Empire. As the work neared completion it was seen that the activities of Irishmen in relation to the different peoples inhabiting Britain would find their best repre- sentation in a separate and independent volume. The relations prevailing between medieval Ireland on the one hand and medieval Wales and Scotland on the other were relations of a kind that did not subsist between Ireland and any other country. In both these countries of Britain there were Irish military conquests and political settle- ments as well as Irish cultural and missionary enterprises, and both Wales and Scotland endured for centuries as Irish provinces, colonies and political dependencies. Among the English the work of medieval Irishmen par- took more exclusively of the character of Irish missionary and cultural work on the Continent. Nevertheless the relations between Ireland and England in that era were relations of a special and peculiar kind, and if England before the so-called Norman Conquest was not a political dependency of Ireland it was in a true sense a moral and intellectual dependency. As long as England remained really England its people looked not to the Continent but to Ireland for that sus- tenance and support without which its uncertain civiliza- tion might never have come into being or might have died almost at birth. Ireland, the mainspring of English civilization, acted also as its foster-mother till the in- vestiture of the land by Romance rule, learning, and speech, consequent on the invasion of the Norman French, made culture in England at last self-sustaining and self- perpetuating. Between the era of the Roman and the era of the Nor- man the Irish race was the master race in Britain, evoking the spontaneous homage and emulation of Pict, Briton, Angle and Saxon by reason of its rounded national life and rich and stable civilization, on which these exterior peoples were permitted to draw freely as the main reser- voir of their aspiration and development. Withdraw out of the picture Ireland and the influences that emanated from it and it is safe to say that the history of what are now called the British Isles between the departure of the Roman and the arrival of the Norman would be represented by a blank almost as complete as the vacuum registered between the arrival of the English in what is now England and the arrival of Augustine and Aidan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ireland and the making of Britain. To get started finding Ireland and the making of Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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