The Irish Problem, Stated and Defined with a Simple and Equitable Solution (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The Irish Problem, Stated and Defined With a Simple and Equitable SolutionIreland, either as invaders or immi grants. The Spanish connection and' intercourse have left enduring traces in the West. On the East coast the Dane has made his mark. Within the Ancient Pale, which included Dublin, and in parts of Tipperary, all racial results of English settlement have not been lost. In Ulster, especially in the North Eastern counties, it is svid~ ent Where the ancestors of the people came from, and these are only some of the more recent ex amples out of many that might be cited. The names Fitzpatrick, Fitz gerald and De La Poer tell their own tale of Norman French ih vasion from England. In more remote times tradition and ancient records speak of many races that at various periods settled on, the coast and spread into the interior, replacing the earlier occupants, or becoming amalgamated with them. But whether Ireland is a Nation or not, it certainly is a country, and though its inhabitants are of various or' mixed descent, they are assuredly a people. The land has in some mysterious way claimed them all 'as her own, and their offspring as her children, so that without exception, Irishmen born and brought up in the country, are equally distinctively and characteristically Irish, just asthe Cornishman and Northumbrian without traceable racial connection, are both unmistakeably and evident ly English. No difierence of religion on ancestry can alter or affect the law that governs such matters, an unwritten and unformulated law as immutable and unchanging as that of gravitation. The in¿uence of the land even extends to those that have resided in it and sub mitted to its attractive power, for St. Patrick, of Italian descent, born in Scotland and educated in France, died as true an Irishman as ever lived from the love in his heart for the land and its people.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.