The Secret Societies of Ireland; Their Rise and Progress

by Hugh B.C. Pollard

Publisher: London : P. Allan Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Secret societies Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Hugh Bertie Campbel Pollard (1888- )

Reviews

[Eric Pollard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, written in 1922 and published in 1998, is full of bigoted, over generalizations that form the foundation of the Anglo-Saxon racial purity ideal. Pollard [no relation found as yet] does, however, provide an interesting and well-researched history of the role of secret societies in the long struggle for Irish independence. Pollard's view of contemporary history, the rise of Sinn Fien and its role in the "Truce" of 1920 and partitioning of the country, owes much to the politics of the Conservative party in England at the time; Socialists are really just Bolsheviks in a cloth coat and Irish nationalists are in the same camp, congenitally unable to handle the responsibilities of law and order. If you can stand the demeaning, overly simplistic, patronizing view of the Irish people, you can learn a bit about how resistance took shape over the 800 year period of English occupation of Ireland.