The Catholic Historical Review, July 1st, 2000
The Bellews of Mount Bellew. A Catholic Gentry Family in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. By Karen J. Harvey. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 1998. Pp. 218. $55.00.)
Karen Harvey offers an unpretentious piece of work-simply a family history. It does not seek a place among the revisions of the history of Irish Catholic life under the ancien regime. As a study of the Catholic gentry, it claims to be no more than illustrative. The Bellews are not presented as paradigmatic.Yet, at once, the chapter headings reveal an attention to more ambitious h...
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