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... continued , and at the time of the great German push , when the Allies needed every man to beat back what seemed certain defeat , over 50,000 trained and well - equipped English soldiers were in Ireland . Kitchener also added to the ...
... continued , and at the time of the great German push , when the Allies needed every man to beat back what seemed certain defeat , over 50,000 trained and well - equipped English soldiers were in Ireland . Kitchener also added to the ...
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... understood and what England cannot understand . After seven hundred years of defeat the English naturally expect submission , and continued resistance takes on the color of mere stub- bornness . 57 FIVE CENTURIES OF IRISH WAR.
... understood and what England cannot understand . After seven hundred years of defeat the English naturally expect submission , and continued resistance takes on the color of mere stub- bornness . 57 FIVE CENTURIES OF IRISH WAR.
Page 58
... continued rebellion savors of insanity to them . People of any intelligence , they argue , would submit to the inevitable and accept the beneficences of peace . This deep conviction of Irish unintelligence is at the very heart of the ...
... continued rebellion savors of insanity to them . People of any intelligence , they argue , would submit to the inevitable and accept the beneficences of peace . This deep conviction of Irish unintelligence is at the very heart of the ...
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... continued to the Barbadoes , and the revolting traffic ceased only when it was discovered that the slave - dealers did not scruple to capture Englishwomen when an Irish supply was not available . The old intent of the English was also ...
... continued to the Barbadoes , and the revolting traffic ceased only when it was discovered that the slave - dealers did not scruple to capture Englishwomen when an Irish supply was not available . The old intent of the English was also ...
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... continued to preach mod- eration and delay , the great organization dis- integrated into secret groups committed to violence . Out of these scattered bands came the United Irishmen in 1791 , under the leadership of Theobald Wolfe Tone ...
... continued to preach mod- eration and delay , the great organization dis- integrated into secret groups committed to violence . Out of these scattered bands came the United Irishmen in 1791 , under the leadership of Theobald Wolfe Tone ...
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Act of Union American arms army arrest Asquith Balfour battle Belfast bigotry bitter Bonar Law British Canadian Cavan Colonies Connaught courage crushed Curzon death declared defeat Dublin Earl England English government English rule ernment exile faith famine fight force France freedom French German Gladstone hatred Home Rule bill House of Commons House of Lords industry Ireland Irish blood Irish history Irish Parliament Irish question Isaac Butt James John Redmond justice King land leaders Leinster liberty lish Lloyd George Lower Canada majority Meagher ment Munster nation Nationalists never O'Donnell O'Neill officers PADRAIC PEARSE Parnell party peace Pearse Pitt pledged political Presbyterians Protestant provinces record refused religious resistance revolt Sarsfield Scotch self-government Sinn Fein Sir Edward Carson soldiers stand tion to-day Tories trade Tyrone Ulster counties Ulster Irish Ulster rebellion Ulster rebels Unionists United Irishmen uprising victory vote Walter Long William
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Page 127 - State nor the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall make any law so as either directly or indirectly to endow any religion or prohibit or restrict the free exercise thereof or give any preference or impose any disability on account of religious belief...
Page 5 - I would almost say, as much as a single newspaper article, unless the product of the day, in which the conduct of England towards Ireland is anywhere treated except with profound and bitter condemnation. Are these the traditions by which we are exhorted to stand? No, they are a sad exception...
Page 5 - Ireland is anywhere treated except with profound and bitter condemnation. Are these the traditions by which we are exhorted to stand? No; they are a sad exception to the glory of our country. They are a broad and black blot upon the pages of its history; and what we want to do...
Page 64 - ... they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes 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 128 - ... the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending the religious instruction at the school...
Page 172 - Albuera, or at Waterloo was more undoubted courage displayed by the sons of Erin than during those six frantic dashes which they directed against the almost impregnable position of their foe.
Page 163 - Ildefonso , in the armies of Frederic and in the armies of Maria Theresa. One exile became a Marshal of France. Another became Prime Minister of Spain.
Page 111 - Before you refer the turbulence of the Irish to incurable defects in their character, tell me if you have treated them as friends and equals? Have you protected their commerce? Have you respected their religion? Have you been as anxious for their freedom as your own? Nothing of all this. What then? Why you have confiscated the territorial surface of the country twice over: you have massacred and exported her inhabitants: you have deprived...
Page 134 - That as Men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the Penal Laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 69 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.