... for remaking Ireland in an English mold Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the s Burke’s quarrel with the French Jacobins in the Reflections arises from their repudiation of the traditional ... discipline in sexual and familial relations, conceived as central to the maintenance of order For part of what Burke fears in the Jacobin revolt is the unfixing of the proper bounds of feminine and ... disappear in England as it has in France, all distinctions would thereby be lost Here Burke avows the central role of masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social, political, and...