Ireland One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago

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Excerpt from Ireland One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago: Being a New and Revised Edition of Ireland Sixty Years AgoThe writer has no desire to indulge the taste of atrocity-mongers, still less to depreciate the character or exaggerate the faults of his countrymen, by any of these sketches. The object of them is the very reverse, if so light a matter as this volume can be said to have an object. N 0 person who knows the state of Ireland at the present day, and compares it with Ireland sixty years ago, can fail to be struck with her great improvement. Sixty years ago we were an isolated and peculiar people, only settling down into the order of a peaceful community, after centu ries of intestine commotion, intercourse with our sister Englandwas limited and unfrequent, few of our neighbours visited us, and we visited few of our neighbours, a compara tively young man may remember the time when a voyage to Liverpool often occupied ten days, and was considered a matter of difficulty and danger - even of boast and exulta tion-to the adventurous traveller who had accomplished it. All this is now changed. Years of peace have taught us to prefer quiet and industry to violence and scheming. Intercourse with England has now become as easy and frequent as between two neighbouring counties at home, as we mix with our neighbours, the rough prominences which distinguished our national character are rubbing ofi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.