CONTEMPORARY IRELAND1908 |
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A. M. Sullivan acres advance agitation agrarian agricultural amount Anglicisation annual annuities Board British Castle Catholic Celt Celtic cent century Church clergy Congested Districts constitutional Court cultivation Dublin economic emigration England English Estates Commissioners evicted fact fair rent Famine favour force former Gaelic Gaelic League Garrison Gladstone Government hand holdings Home Rule industries interest Irish Irish language Irishman judge judicial jury labourers Land Commission land purchase landlords language League Lecky less Liberal London Lord means millions moral movement Nationalist never O'Brien O'Connell official organised Parliament Parliamentary Parnell party peasants Penal Laws police political population priests Protestant question reform refused regards religious remained Report result schools Section Sir Horace Plunkett social Society soil spirit T. P. O'Connor tenants to-day Trinity College Ulster Union Unionist United Irish League West William O'Brien Young Ireland
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Page 41 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...
Page 28 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page xiv - Conciliation, that, for instance, an infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Page 334 - I must say from all accounts, and my own observation, that the state of our fellow-countrymen in the parts I have named is worse than that of any people in the world, let alone Europe. I believe that these people are made as we are ; that they are patient beyond belief ; loyal, but at the same time broken-spirited and desperate, living on the verge of starvation in places in which we would not keep our cattle.
Page 431 - A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river.
Page 190 - What I have now to add is simply this : I have acted all through this business, from the first, under a strong sense of duty. I do not repent anything I have done ; and I believe that the course which I have opened is only commenced. The Roman, who saw his hand burning to ashes before the tyrant, promised that three hundred should follow out his enterprise. Can I not promise for one, for two, for three ? " Indicating, as he spoke, Reilly, Martin, and Meagher, " Promise for me " — " and me " —...
Page 41 - The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions, of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics.
Page 285 - No rent shall be allowed or made payable in any proceedings under this Act in respect of improvements made by the tenant or his predecessors in title, and for which, in the opinion of the court, the tenant or his predecessors in title shall not have been paid or otherwise compensated by the landlord or his predecessors in title.
Page 371 - Upon what principles of comparison, and by the application of what specific standards, the relative capacity of Great Britain and Ireland to bear taxation may be most equitably determined.
Page 27 - The Lord President, he himself assures us, having heard that the Munster fugitives were harboured in certain parts of that province, diverted his forces thither, ' burnt all the houses and corn, taking great preys, . . . and, harassing the country, killed all mankind that were found therein.