Very attractive two matching volumes of the history of Ireland and its volatile relationship with England. Includes accounts of its original history, its revolutions, seasons of anarchy, various attempts at union between England and Ireland, Protestantism in Ireland [including the period of the Great Awakening, when Wesley and the Methodists when very active], etc.
Froude, James Anthony. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. Volumes I & II [of III]. London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1881. 704 + 568pp.
Good + to very good condition with some rubbing as shown, very solid and very attractive on the shelf. Foredges and endpapers have corresponding marbling and the text is solid and clean save some scattered foxing.
