Synopsis
Essays, Historical, Critical, And Political, Contributed Principally To The Dublin Review by George Whitley Abraham is a 19th-century sequence of critical notices published in the Dublin Review. It surveys and appraises recent historical, biographical, and political works, focusing on historiographical methods, biases, sources, and their implications for church, state, and national memory. The notices cover themes such as religion and power, education in Ireland (endowments, national schooling, and church–state relations), and debates over reform, empire, and liberal politics. Individual reviews discuss Clement XIV and the Jesuits; Mary Stuart; Demetrius the Impostor; Cockburn’s Memorials; Tennent’s Ceylon; and broader European figures like Frederick the Great, Arundel, Harford, Guizot, and Montalembert. The volume emphasizes the politics of denominational versus non-denominational education, the role of reform in Ireland and England, and the responsibilities of historians to evidence and balanced judgment. It reflects Victorian concerns with civil equality, reform, and the need for closer English–Irish liberal cooperation to secure peaceful progress.
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