The devil has two horns
J.G.A. Pocock, 24 February 1994
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Minerva, 692 pp., £8.99, September 1993,0 7493 9721 7 Show More
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Minerva, 692 pp., £8.99, September 1993,
“... not to this ethnic-political entity, the ‘New English’, but to the ‘Old English’, of Anglo-Norman descent like the family names of Burke, Nagle and Nugent, and historically Catholic. His family were converts to the Church of Ireland, much like the conversos or ‘New Christians’ of 16th-century Spain, who maintained in private the religion they were ... ”