The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays In the troubled history of Ireland the villain was the Absentee Landlord. Nothing good ever said of him. He was a parasite for whom no apology could be made. The sum of his iniquities was that he enjoyed property without assuming any of the responsibilities that belonged to it. In England he might be an excellent member of society, conscious of the duties of a citizen and neighbor. But his occasional visits to his estates across St. George's Channel were not even for the purpose of collecting his rents - that he left to his agents. With some careless companions he would spend a rollicking fortnight or two among his tenantry, receive their " God bless you's, " for nothing at all, and then return to the serious business of life. 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.