Penal Laws: “full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts”
And nice piece on that greatest of Irish parliamentarian, Edmund Burke: For all his rise to political fame, and nearly to power, in the greatest imperial corridors of his time, he never forgot that his native land was essentially enslaved by the very government for which he labored with such skill and flair. On the January day he was born Éamon de Búrca, in the old tongue, in 1729, on Arran Quay on the River Liffey in Dublin, the English …