The Boyne Water : by the O'Hara family

Banim, John

Published by D & J Sadlier & Co, New York, 1881

About this Item

Church library bookplate, front hinge started, top and fore-edge margin dampstains, binding shaken but still firm, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Issued as an unnumbered volume in Sadlier's ten volume set Banim's Works. A political novel . "The Boyne water (1825), a pseudo-Scottean depiction of the Williamite war in Ireland, for which John toured Ulster and the Boyne battlefield (assisted by Samuel McSkimin) while Michael [Banim] visited Limerick and other southern settings. Its highly didactic narrative attributes the seventeenth-century conflict to the fears and machinations of religious bigots, and implicitly suggests that a similar outcome can be avoided in the 1820s by granting Catholic emancipation. Although the novel's Protestant bigots (led by George Walker) are handled at greater length, it seems likely that its generalised expressions of anti-clericalism were sincerely meant, for though acutely resentful of his position as a second-class citizen John was at this time a religious sceptic. (He returned to the practice of catholicism after reading William Paley's Evidences of Christianity (1794), noting the irony that a work critical of popery should produce this result.)" - "Banim, John"; Contributed by Maume, Patrick; The Dictionary of Irish Biography. Later nineteenth-century printing of this Irish historical novel, culminating in the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, where King William III defeated the forces of the deposed King James II. ; 559 pages. Seller Inventory # 15525

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Boyne Water : by the O'Hara family

Publisher: D & J Sadlier & Co, New York

Publication Date: 1881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket