God-Provoking Democrat (ePub)
The Remarkable Life of Archibald Hamilton Rowan
(Sprache: Englisch)
'I have seen many, very many United Irishmen, and with a few exceptions they are . . . the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell.'
Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1832) led a colourful...
Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1832) led a colourful...
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'I have seen many, very many United Irishmen, and with a few exceptions they are . . . the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell.'
Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1832) led a colourful life. Heavily influenced by the celebrated radical John Jebb at Cambridge, and the revolutionary thinker Mary Wollstonecraft, he made waves throughout his career, weathering the wrath of his own class as he championed the causes of the poor and oppressed. Of a passionate disposition, he was involved in several duels, denounced the military for shooting dead tradesmen in Dublin for bull-baiting, and as a young man was liable to getting into 'scrapes with married women'.
He was a founding member of the United Irish Society, and imprisoned in 1794, but he managed to escape in a fishing vessel. He then endured eleven years of hardship in France, Germany and America before his tenacious wife, Sarah Dawson, managed to secure him a pardon and he returned to Ireland in 1806.
His revolutionary activities, treasonable plots, jail break and fugitive status make Rowan's remarkable life as a 'god-provoking democrat' an astounding and gripping adventure.
Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1832) led a colourful life. Heavily influenced by the celebrated radical John Jebb at Cambridge, and the revolutionary thinker Mary Wollstonecraft, he made waves throughout his career, weathering the wrath of his own class as he championed the causes of the poor and oppressed. Of a passionate disposition, he was involved in several duels, denounced the military for shooting dead tradesmen in Dublin for bull-baiting, and as a young man was liable to getting into 'scrapes with married women'.
He was a founding member of the United Irish Society, and imprisoned in 1794, but he managed to escape in a fishing vessel. He then endured eleven years of hardship in France, Germany and America before his tenacious wife, Sarah Dawson, managed to secure him a pardon and he returned to Ireland in 1806.
His revolutionary activities, treasonable plots, jail break and fugitive status make Rowan's remarkable life as a 'god-provoking democrat' an astounding and gripping adventure.
Autoren-Porträt von Fergus Whelan
God-provoking Democrat is Fergus Whelan's second book. His previous work, Dissent into Treason, published by Brandon Books in 2010, was well received on both sides of the Irish border. One critic declared that Whelan has 'rewritten Irish history with audacious ingenuity'. He works for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
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- Autor: Fergus Whelan
- 2015, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: New Island
- ISBN-10: 1848404611
- ISBN-13: 9781848404618
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2015
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