The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland: Or, The Story of the Land League Revolution |
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agent agitation agrarian America appeared arrest bill branches Brennan Britain British called Catholic cause Celtic coercion commission convention court crime Davitt Dublin Castle dynamite elected enemies England English evicted fact feeling Fenian fight force Forster friends Gladstone Gladstone's Healy Home Rule Home-Rule House of Commons hundred Ireland Irish land Irish landlords Irish leader Irish National Irish National League Irish party Irishman Isaac Butt James John Dillon labor Land Act Land League land question letter Liberal London Lord Mayo measure meeting ment Messrs Michael Davitt National League nationalist O'Brien opinion organization outrages paper Parliament parliamentary Parnell Parnell's peasantry persons Phoenix Park murders Pigott political popular prison proposed purchase purpose rent revolutionary Richard Pigott social speech spirit struggle T. D. Sullivan T. M. Healy T. P. O'Connor tenants thousand tion Tory trial York
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Page 293 - I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 496 - Go into the length and breadth of the world, ransack the literature of all countries, find if you can a single voice, a single book, in which the conduct of England towards Ireland is anywhere treated except with profound and bitter condemnation.
Page 231 - Ministers have hitherto been enabled to secure that peace, so necessary to the welfare of all civilised countries, and so peculiarly the interest of our own. But this ineffable blessing cannot be obtained by the passive principle of non-interference. Peace rests on the presence, not to say the ascendency, of England in the Councils of Europe. Even at this moment, the doubt, supposed to be inseparable from popular election, if it does not diminish, certainly arrests her influence, and is a main reason...
Page 351 - The accomplishment of the programme I have sketched out to you would, in my judgment, be regarded by the country as a practical settlement of the Land Question, and would, I feel sure, enable us to cooperate cordially for the future with the Liberal Party in forwarding Liberal principles and measures of general reform...
Page 532 - DEAR SIR, — I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy. " But you can tell him and all others concerned that though I regret the accident of Lord F. Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.
Page 88 - That in the opinion of this Conference the time has arrived when the Labour Party should have as a definite object the socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, to be controlled by a democratic State in the interest of the entire community...
Page 10 - Reign of Terror ! But it was not the Dumb Millions that suffered here ; it was the Speaking Thousands, and Hundreds and Units; who shrieked and published, and made the world ring with their wail, as they could and should : that is the grand peculiarity. The frightfullest Births of Time are never the loud-speaking ones, for these soon die ; they are the silent ones, which can live from century to century! Anarchy, hateful as Death, is abhorrent to the whole nature of man ; and so must itself soon...
Page 10 - Grievances; and for answer got hanged on a ' new gallows forty feet high,' — confesses mournfully that there is no period to be met with, in which the general Twenty-five Millions of France suffered less than in this period which they name Reign of Terror ! But it was not the Dumb Millions that suffered here; it was the Speaking Thousands, and Hundreds and Units ; who shrieked and published, and made the world ring with their wail, as they could and should : that is the grand peculiarity.
Page 232 - I want to see a public man come forward and say what the Irish question is. One says it is a physical question ; another, a spiritual. Now it is the absence of the aristocracy, then the absence of railroads. It is the Pope one day; potatoes the next.
Page 18 - 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.