Of course he had as much right to put the English case as Father Burke had to put the Irish one.

But his responsibility was far greater, and his splendid talents might have been better employed than in reviving the mutual animosities of religion or of race.
-- * See Froude's English in Ireland, vol.iii.pp.

320, 321; Lecky's History of England, vol.viii.p.

52.
-- When Lecky reviewed, with much critical asperity, the last two volumes of Froude's English in Ireland for Macmillan's Magazine* he referred to Home Rule as a moderate and constitutional movement.

His own History was not completed till 1890.