... closest connexion between Great Britain and Ireland, is essential to the well being, I had almost said, to the very being, of the two Kingdoms . . . Ireland, locally, civilly, and commercially ... portrays his duties to Ireland and England as different in degree, but not in kind. With regard to Ireland, he writes that ‘‘my endeavour was to obtain liberty for the municipal country in which ... strates what Thomas H. D. Mahoney has called Burke’s ‘‘imperial mentality,’’ whereby the interests of Ireland, however significant in their own right, were all the more important insofar as they accorded...