By Róisín Healy
This publication explores the assertions made by way of Irish nationalists of a parallel among eire lower than British rule and Poland less than Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule within the lengthy 19th century. Poland loomed huge within the Irish nationalist mind's eye, regardless of the low point of direct touch among eire and Poland as much as the twenty-first century. Irish women and men took a willing curiosity in Poland and lots of believed that its adventure reflected that of eire. This view rested totally on a historic coincidence—the lack of sovereignty suffered via Poland within the ultimate partition of 1795 and by way of eire within the Act of Union of 1801, following unsuccessful rebellions. It additionally drew on a typical dedication to Catholicism and a shared event of non secular persecution. This research exhibits how this parallel proved politically major, permitting Irish nationalists to problem the legitimacy of British rule in eire by means of arguing that British governments have been hypocritical to sentence in Poland what they themselves practised in Ireland.
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89 In response to a letter of thanks from King Stanisław August, he reiterated his praise for the constitution: “You have made a part greater than the whole. ”90 Earls makes a convincing argument that Burke regarded Poland as more than a useful rhetorical device and felt genuine sympathy for its fate. He points to Conor Cruise O’Brien’s claim that Burke’s sensitivity to the sufferings of Irish Catholics under the Penal Laws, influenced by the fact that his own mother was Catholic, predisposed him to support underdogs elsewhere.
As was typical for central and eastern Europe, the majority of Poland’s population were serfs, peasants who not only owed labour and/or payments to their masters, but who could neither marry nor move away without © The Author(s) 2017 R. 1007/978-3-319-43431-5_2 21 22 R. HEALY their permission. Irish peasants may well have been materially worse off and rarely owned the land they tilled, but they were legally free. Finally, despite the influx of Protestant settlers from England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Poland-Lithuania was ethnically, linguistically, and religiously far more heterogeneous than contemporary Ireland.
90 Earls makes a convincing argument that Burke regarded Poland as more than a useful rhetorical device and felt genuine sympathy for its fate. He points to Conor Cruise O’Brien’s claim that Burke’s sensitivity to the sufferings of Irish Catholics under the Penal Laws, influenced by the fact that his own mother was Catholic, predisposed him to support underdogs elsewhere. Burke certainly was an active advocate of many causes: the Poles, the American colonists, and the Indian victims of the extortive practices of the East India Company.