Modern Ireland


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Excerpt from Modern Ireland: Its Vital Questions, Secret Societies, and Government Very little change is necessary to make this accu rately descriptive of the present state of things. Although there have been no general calamities on which to charge part of the blame, the most indus trions and energetic of the land-cultivators are flying from a country intrinsically rich, where an artifi cial system of land-laws has made prosperity impos sible for them. That Ireland has again become bold and daring is a fact which ought not to be more clear than that the same cause has led to it, which in 1779 produced it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Modern Ireland


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Modern Ireland


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Modern Ireland; Its Vital Questions, Secret Societies, and Government


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... "Nothlng is wanted," said Lord Stanley, speaking of Ireland, at Bristol, "except a little peace and security, for uncounted millions of British capital to pour into that country as English wealth has poured into Scotland, and as it continues every day to pour into the colonies that are separated from us by the breadth of the globe." To prove that this enthusiastic prediction has some solid ground to rest upon, Lord Stanley gives no reasons. The assertion is made, and men are left to accept it on the simple authority of the speaker. If, indeed, he had already approved himself a true oracle, that might stand for a reason; but his foresight on other questions has not been such as to inspire confidence in his prophetical utterances on this. To give his statement weight with reasoning men, he ought to have shown that Ireland, as a place of investment for capital, was similarly circumstanced with Scotland and the other colonies he spoke of, and that in times of tranquillity in Ireland "uncounted millions" of British capital actually had poured into that country. The trick he has attempted to play off, however, is not a new one . Whenever Ireland has become restless under the irritation of some burden laid upon the great body of the nation for the sole advantage of a small minority, some Conservative statesman has been sure to step on to the stage with his magic mirror, and flash a glitter of British gold before the eyes of the Irish. "Only do not press for a removal of Catholic disabilities," they have been told, "and you shall get untold mines of British capital; only do not urge that landlordism should be deprived of a right to confiscate tenants' improvements, and hoards of this wealth shall be turned in amongst you; only empty your purses...










Irish Land Questions


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Realities of Irish Life


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Geographies of City Science


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Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century was both the second city of the British Empire and the soon-to-be capital of an emerging nation, presenting a unique space in which to examine the past relationship between science and the city. Drawing on both geography and biography, Geographies of City Science underscores the crucial role urban spaces played in the production of scientific knowledge. Each chapter explores the lives of two practitioners from one of the main religious and political traditions in Dublin (either Protestant and Unionist or Catholic and Nationalist). As Tanya O’Sullivan argues, any variation in their engagement with science had far less to do with their affiliations than with their “life spaces”—domains where human agency and social structures collide. Focusing on nineteenth-century debates on the origins of the universe as well as the origins of form, humans, and language, O’Sullivan explores the numerous ways in which scientific meaning relating to origin theories was established and mobilized in the city. By foregrounding Dublin, her book complements more recent attempts to enrich the historiography of metropolitan science by examining its provenance in less well-known urban centers.