**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Irish achievements in the 18th century were largely those of Protestants, so Catholics tended to disregard them. The 18th century tended to be neglected by Irish historians in the 20th century. Catholic historians concentrated on the grievances of the Catholics and exaggerated them. The Penal Laws against Catholics were stressed regardless of the fact that most of them affected only a small number of rich Catholics, the Catholic landowners who had sufficient wealth to raise a regiment of infantry to fight for the Catholic Stuart pretenders.