Musgrave's sharply partisan 1801 interpretation of the 1798 Rebellion has been thoroughly discredited, says Kelly (history, U. College Dublin), but it still serves as a good source of information for the course of events, and as a foundation text of early 19th-century ultra-protestantism. He traces the development of Musgrave's notions, his various expressions of them, and their impact on the politics of religion in Ireland through the stages of his private life and public career to 1786, his emergence as a conservative ideologue to 1797, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland and the reaction to it, his later propagating, and his leadership in the faction. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
