Chesterton’s visit to Ireland in early 1918 resulted in this unique, readable, and thought-provoking book on Ireland and the Irish situation of the early 20th-century from one of England’s greatest essayists. In Irish Impressions, familiar Chestertonian themes — distribution of property, industrialism, the Faith, and Christian society — are discussed in the context of Ireland’s struggle for national and cultural independence from the Britain of the early 1900s. Not mincing words, Chesterton points out both the strengths and weakness of the English and Irish positions during that crucial period, always with wit and wisdom — and an appreciation of religious, cultural, and economic essentials, which is characteristic of Chesterton’s work.
Preface —The Publishers
Introduction —Dr. Dermot Quinn
Chronology of Irish History
I. Two Stones in a Square
II. The Root of Reality
III. The Family and the Feud
IV. The Paradox of Labour
V. The Englishman in Ireland
VI. The Mistake of England
VII. The Mistake of Ireland
VIII. An Example and a Question
IX. Belfast and the Religious Problem
