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Excerpt from Revolutionary Ireland and Its Settlement Much has been written upon the Revolution of 1688 and its bearing upon Irish history. When regarded as merely ancillary to English history, affairs in Ireland tend to have their real significance obscured or even misconceived, for a purely incidental consideration of the complex circumstances of Ireland in the latter half of the seventeenth century must inevitably fail to reveal all the hidden forces then at work. An attempt to supplement and qualify the results of historical research conducted from the standpoint of English history would therefore seem to be justifiable. By throwing light on the field of inquiry from another point of view we may perhaps aid in dispelling some of the shadows left by the workers who, turning the searchlight of investigation from an English centre of interest, have thrown but slanting beams upon the problems of Ireland. On the other hand, I am not unmindful of the special contributions - many of them of great value and interest, e.g. Klopp's Fall des Hauses Stuart - which have been made to the history of Ireland during the troubled quarter of a century (1688-1714) with which I deal. 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.