La Question Irlandaise1860 - 12 pages |
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America army Austria British Empire British government British Parliament British press British treasury Catholic Celt clothe double Commission condemned confiscated county of Mayo cruel cultivate dead of hunger double the number Dublin emigration English Europe evict exile existence fact famine farm favor feed flagrant forced give Ireland happy honor horrible House of Commons House of Lords inhabitants insurrection Ireland gives Ireland independent Irish independ Irish patriots Irish peasant IRISH QUESTION Irish tenant Irish Volunteers John Bull labor land landlord Let England Linen Trade longer Lord manufactures million of Irishmen millions of francs millions sterling misery natural O'Connell oppression Poland poor population possessing potatoes present produce of Ireland profit prosperity Protestant prove province QUESTION IRLANDAISE reality receive reign reproach serfs seven millions Sicily slave soil sorrow supported surplus thousand tion to-day typhus fever Ulster unfortunate Ireland Union United Kingdom wish
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Page 6 - Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 5 - There is not," said his lordship, " a nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures, with the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland.
Page 6 - was the utter extermination of all the Catholic inhabitants of Ireland. Their estates were already marked out, and allotted to the conquerors ; so that they and their posterity were consigned to inevitable ruin.
Page 5 - 1782. We are reminded of it by the present period. Then, as " now, our merchants were without trade, our shopkeepers without " customers, our workmen without employment ; then, as now, it " became the universal feeling that nothing but the recovery of our " rights could save us. Our rights were recovered ; and how soon " afterwards, indeed as if by magic, plenty smiled on us, and toe " soon became prosperous and happy.
Page 11 - Humboldt writes (27th February, 1847). 'and this man made an uncomfortable impression upon me at Stolzenfels. "I know," ho said to me, "that you sympathise greatly with the misfortunes of the Russian Poles. Unfortunately, the Poles are as little deserving of our sympathy as the Irish.
Page 5 - Elizabeth tells us, that, by the eril policy of bad ministers, " little was left in Ireland for Her Majesty to reign over but ashes and carcasses...
Page 6 - It is absolutely essential to the existence of the British empire that the Irish peasant class be kept in a position tnat will make them entirely manageable—easy to be thinned out when they grow too numerous, and available materiel for armies.