Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society, 1740-1890
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: December 1991
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780044457091
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Social history; Northern Ireland; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion
First sentence: Writing in the middle of the nineteenth century the prolific clerical essayist Abraham Hume suggested - ironically, in the light of modern views - that when 'a Prime Minister states, that of all the parts of the United Kingdom, Ireland is his "greatest difficulty", the Province of Ulster is an understood exception'.