Contemporary Ireland"This book is a English translation of L'Irlande contemporaine, Paris, 1907 "--p xii Includes bibliographical references. |
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... officials of the Cour des Comptes , he is a member of the group which Brunetière's erudite enthusiasm gathered round the Revue des Deux Mondes . Was it not Taine who originated the phrase " well - documented , " and made it the ...
... officials of the Cour des Comptes , he is a member of the group which Brunetière's erudite enthusiasm gathered round the Revue des Deux Mondes . Was it not Taine who originated the phrase " well - documented , " and made it the ...
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... official , writing in 1582 , computed that in six months , more than 30,000 people had been starved to death in Munster , besides those who were hanged or who perished by the sword.9 These things happened during the course of a war ...
... official , writing in 1582 , computed that in six months , more than 30,000 people had been starved to death in Munster , besides those who were hanged or who perished by the sword.9 These things happened during the course of a war ...
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... official who opposed it was dismissed from his place . Moreover , the immediate concession of religious liberty and Catholic emancipation was promised , gifts for which , however , the Catholics had , in the event , to wait twenty- nine ...
... official who opposed it was dismissed from his place . Moreover , the immediate concession of religious liberty and Catholic emancipation was promised , gifts for which , however , the Catholics had , in the event , to wait twenty- nine ...
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... officials . But the people were too exhausted to work . The workmen in many cases on taking up the pick or shovel ... official , when questioned about the discontent of the Irish peasantry , said that so far from being discontented ...
... officials . But the people were too exhausted to work . The workmen in many cases on taking up the pick or shovel ... official , when questioned about the discontent of the Irish peasantry , said that so far from being discontented ...
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... official part in the agitation , but furnished the funds for it . Matters grew worse on both sides . The Unionist Government gave itself up to a policy of re - action . 1887 Mr. Balfour secured the passing of a Land Bill that partially ...
... official part in the agitation , but furnished the funds for it . Matters grew worse on both sides . The Unionist Government gave itself up to a policy of re - action . 1887 Mr. Balfour secured the passing of a Land Bill that partially ...
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Page 26 - ... 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 306 - 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 39 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. 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, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 401 - 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 172 - 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 160 - We were reckless, ignorant, improvident, drunken, and idle. We were idle, for we had nothing to do ; we were reckless, for we had no hope ; we were ignorant, for learning was denied us ; we were improvident, for we had no future ; we were drunken, for we sought to forget our misery.
Page 39 - 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 263 - 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 341 - 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.