The Bellews of Mount Bellew: A Catholic Gentry Family in Eighteenth-century IrelandFour Courts Press, 1998 - 218 pages This text analyses the impact of the penal l aws on one particular Catholic gentry family. The Bellews pr ospered, despite the penal laws; their lands provided them w ith a good living. Yet the family did not remain untouched. ' |
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PREFACE | 9 |
The SeventeenthCentury Background | 17 |
The Land the Law and | 43 |
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