Given the era in which it was written, with Home Rule and politics to the fore, the book begins with an interesting chapter on the ancient relationships between Scotland and Ireland – "... the present inhabitants of all the four provinces of Ireland are the descendants of successive bodies of invaders, who from time to time subjugated or dispossessed the original denizens of the country, so that to speak now of an indigenous population in any proper sense of the term, is an entire mistake... Ireland was the first Scotland, and the first Scotchmen were Irishmen."
It is online on Archive.org here.
• A biography of Hamilton is on the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland website here.
• He was President of Queen's College (now Queen's University Belfast) from 1889–1923.
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