{"id":72,"date":"2010-10-15T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:41:42","slug":"new-acquisition-irish-history-washington-ordered-50-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/10\/15\/new-acquisition-irish-history-washington-ordered-50-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Acquisition–Irish history–Washington ordered 50 copies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Mullalla,\u00a0 A View of Irish Affairs since the Revolution of 1688<\/em> (Dublin, 1795).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first edition of this treatise on Irish politics, to which Washington subscribed (for fifty copies) in the year he ratified the Jay Treaty, the accord which began a decade of peace with Britain.\u00a0 Mullalla, \u2018patriot\u2019 historian, Trinity (Ireland) scholar and Freemason, analyzes the \u2018calamities of the nation invariably flowing from public misrule, barbarous manners, private interest, and the rage of parties\u2019.\u00a0 He cites archives and authors studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and discusses the effects of political actions undertaken at the Vatican, at Westminster and on Irish soil.\u00a0 Mullalla achieved notoriety in 1792 when he produced “the most politically provocative [pamphlet] of all.”\u00a0\u00a0His Compilation on the Slave Trade, respectfully addressed to the Irish People<\/em>, with its “blunt assertion of the African\u2019s right to revolt against his master was a highly unusual feature in the anti-slavery discourse” (Rodgers).\u00a0 A View of Irish Affairs<\/em> sees Mullalla revisit the theme of Irish manumission, as he discusses the “narrow and illiberal policy of Great-Britain.” \u00a0Despite this, he is on the whole optimistic about the future relationship between the nations.\u00a0 SEE Nini Rodgers, “Ireland and the Black Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century,” Irish Historical Studies<\/em>, 32:126 (2000), pp. 174-192.<\/p>\n

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James Mullalla,\u00a0 A View of Irish Affairs since the Revolution of 1688 (Dublin, 1795). The first edition of this treatise on Irish politics, to which Washington subscribed (for fifty copies) in the year he ratified the Jay Treaty, the accord which began a decade of peace with Britain.\u00a0 Mullalla, \u2018patriot\u2019 historian, Trinity (Ireland) scholar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}