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Froude, Lecky and ‘the humblest Irishman’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Anne Wyatt
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The usual route to the discovery of Froude’s English in Ireland in the eighteenth century, first published between 1872 and 1874, and Lecky’s History of Ireland in the eighteenth century, which first appeared as a separate work in 1892, lies through the bibliographies of more recent historians. Today, eighty to a hundred years after their appearance on the scene of history, politics and rature, these works are still authorities for the period they cover. They are monumental works: monuments to the skill, industry, personality and opinions of their authors and, in varying degrees, to their scholarship.

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Research Article
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 75 , March 1975 , pp. 261 - 285
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1975

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References

1 Froude, J.A., The English in Ireland in the eighteenth century vols, London, 1881).Google Scholar These volumes will be referred to as Froude, i].

2 Lecky, W.E.H., A history of Ireland in the eighteenth century vols, London, 1892; New York, 1893)Google Scholar. These volumes will be referred as Lecky, i [etc.].

3 The History of Ireland consists of chapters, and parts of chapters, wn from Lecky’s History of England which appeared between 1878–1890.

4 See Keir, D. Lindsay, ‘Froude and Lecky on eighteenth century and’ in I.C.H.S. Bull., no. 14 (1941), pp 4–5.Google Scholar

5 Froude, i, iii.

6 Lecky, i, 281.

7 Hammond, J.L., Gladstone and the Irish nation (reprint, London, 1964), p. 524.Google Scholar

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13 Froude, i, 151.

14 Ibid., i, 177–8.

15 Ibid., 293.

16 Ibid., 420.

17 Ibid., p. 421.

18 Ibid., p. 640.

19 Ibid., p. 266.

20 Ibid., p. 267.

21 Froude, ii, 143.

22 Froude, i, 636–7.

23 Froude, ii, 1.

24 Ibid., p. 92.

25 Froude, i, 675.

26 Froude, ii, 198.

27 Ibid., pp 356–7

28 Ibid., p. 489.

29 Ibid., p. 543.

30 Ibid., p. 279.

31 Froude, iii, 448.

32 Ibid., p. 583.

33 Froude, i, 310.

34 A memoir of the Rt Hon. William Edward Hart pole Lecky, by his wife (London, 1909), p. 13.

35 This quotation appears on pp 29–30 of Auchmuty, J.J., Lecky—a biographical and critical essay (London, 1945).Google Scholar Unfortunately this work contains not a single footnote, and no sources are given for the many quotations which appear in it.

36 Lecky, iii, 421.

37 Lecky, i, 89.

38 Froude, i, 117.

39 Lecky, i, 396. For the topic as a whole see pp 370–96.

40 Ibid., p. 240.

41 Ibid., pp 240–41.

42 Ibid., p. 241.

43 Lecky, ii, 53.

44 Ibid., p. 317

45 Ibid., p. 309.

46 Ibid., p. 501.

47 Ibid., pp 501–2.

48 Ibid., p. 427.

49 Ibid., p. 57.

50 Ibid., p. 250.

51 Ibid., p. 250.

52 Lecky, iii, 226.

53 Lecky, ii, 295.

54 Lecky, iv, 2.

55 Ibid., p. 3.

56 Lecky, iii, 149.

57 Ibid., p. 150.

58 Ibid., p. 156.

59 Ibid., p. 21.

60 Ibid., p. 16.

61 Ibid., p. 19.

62 Ibid., p. 20.

63 Lecky, i, 1.

64 Ibid., p. 148.

65 Ibid., p. 273.

66 Ibid., p. 149.

67 Ibid., p. 176.

68 Ibid., p. 402.

69 Ibid., p. 151.

70 Ibid., p. 150.

71 Hyde, H. Montgomery, A Victorian historian (London, 1947), pp 41–2.Google Scholar

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73 Lecky, iii, 351.

74 Lecky, i, 252.

75 Lecky, v, 492.

76 Lecky, iii, 18–19.

77 Lecky, v, 372.

78 Lecky, ii, 295.

79 Lecky, iv, 140.

80 Lecky, p. 141.

81 Lecky, v, 201.

82 Lecky, iv, 329.

83 Lecky, v, 486.

84 Curtis, , Anglo-Saxons and Celts, p. 53.Google Scholar

85 Ibid., p. 64.

86 Donal McCartney refers to Lecky’s increased respect for Froude’s ‘diagnosis of Irish ills’ in the period of the 1880s. See McCartney, , ‘James Anthony Froude and Ireland : a historiographical controversy of the nineteenth century’ in Hist. Studies, 8 (1971), p. 189.Google Scholar