Davitt’s Part
Charles Townshend, 3 June 1982
Davitt and Irish Revolution 1846-1882
by T.W. Moody.
Oxford, 674 pp., £22.50, April 1982,9780198223825 Show More
by T.W. Moody.
Oxford, 674 pp., £22.50, April 1982,
“... and, perhaps, this invective – are not merely indicative of the prodigious detail of T.W. Moody’s new study: they supply much of his explanation of Davitt’s capacity to sway vast crowds of Connacht peasants whose minds were less than perfectly attuned to his. What impressed his audiences was ‘the intensity of his manner, the clarity of his ... ”
