A French-born Jesuit in America surveys Irish history as the story of a people with a providential Christian mission: the reception of the faith, the long struggle with the pagan Danes, the free clans against Anglo-Norman feudalism, and centuries of resistance to the Tudors and their successors. Thébaud writes as a passionate Catholic apologist; this text lacks sixteen pages of the original.
A substantial and openly partisan Catholic history whose ideas of national and racial character are those of the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.