Excerpt from History of the City of Dublin, From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing Its Annals, Antiquities, Ecclesiastical History, and Charters; Its Present Extent, Public Buildings, Schools, Institutions, &C The Institutions of every people are intimately connected with their most important social relations; they, therefore, cannot fail to be objects of interest to him who is appointed to govern them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from History of the City of Dublin, From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Its Annals, Antiquities, Ecclesiastical History, and Charters; Its Present Extent, Public Buildings, Schools, Institutions, &C On inspecting the state of the Work, the last Editor discovered the ardu ous task he had inadvertently undertaken to perform. He found 650 pages of it printed, and materials for about 100 more but this did not compre hend half the intended publication, and he had no alternative but to pub, lish the valuable but unfinished fragment of Mr. Whitelaw in the state in which he found it, or to endeavour to fill up the plan he had pointed out, and render the work, as far as his exertion could make it, more worthy the memory of a valued friend, and a more full and satisfactory picture of the Capital of Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish population and the state under which they lived from the War of the Two Kings (1689-1691) to the Great Famine (1845-1849). Particular attention is paid to an understanding of the legal character of the state and the reach of the rule of law, with contributors addressing such themes as: how law was made and put into effect; how ordinary people experienced the law and social regulations; how Catholics related to the legal institutions of the Protestant confessional state; and how popular notions of legitimacy were developed. These themes contribute to a wider understanding of the nature of the state in the long eighteenth century and will therefore help to situate the study of Irish society into the mainstream of English and European social history.

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."