Category: History - European
This book gives a careful historical analysis, in clear and simple terms, of the Gaelic State, and shows exactly what that State was, how it worked, and in what way it could be adapted for the modern requirements of a Nation. On the basis of that analysis it outlines a State f...
This book gives a careful historical analysis, in clear and simple terms, of the Gaelic State, and shows exactly what that State was, how it worked, and in what way it could be...
2. Part 2The polity that thus emerged consisted of a number of stateships throughout the country, each of which was a smaller reproduction of the State in which it was comprised, and eac...
3. Part 3Any arrogation of power by the monarch (and it is the first principle of monarchs to arrogate power) would have struck athwart the rule of the people in their most familiar and...
4. Part 4Cromwell’s gentle watchword “To Hell or to Connacht,” therefore, was the logical consummation of that policy. It was the full peal of bells of which the Statutes of Kilkenny wer...
5. Part 5That is to say, before any building can proceed its foundation must be assured, the foundation being the same as preceded the building in the old State. That building, it will b...
6. Part 6Stateships such as these would be the recognised units of the State. That is to say, they would be political units, and would thus be the constituencies for the return of one or...