“The brotherhood of affection”

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: This study concerns the reasons that led to the failure of the United Irishmen project of a non-sectarian union. Allied to the Protestants in the fight for the 1782 constitution, the Catholics felt they had been betrayed when they were excluded from parliamentary reform. They were therefore suspicious when, ten years later, they were invited to join a new national union movement. The United Irishmen understood only too late that they had neglected the importance of the past and the...

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