Disturbed Ireland. Bernard Henry Becker

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       Bernard Henry Becker

      Disturbed Ireland

      Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066226268

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       DISTURBED IRELAND.

       I. ToC

       AT LOUGH MASK.

       II. ToC

       AN AGRARIAN DIFFICULTY.

       III. ToC

       A LAND MEETING.

       IV. ToC

       MISS GARDINER AND HER TENANTS.

       V. ToC

       FROM MAYO TO CONNEMARA.

       VI. ToC

       THE RELIEF OF MR. BOYCOTT.

       VII. ToC

       MR. RICHARD STACPOOLE.

       VIII. ToC

       PATRIOTS.

       IX. ToC

       ON THE FERGUS.

       X. ToC

       PALLAS AND THE PALLADIANS.

       XI. ToC

       GOMBEEN.

       XII. ToC

       THE RETAINER.

       XIII. ToC

       CROPPED.

       XIV. ToC

       IN KERRY.

       XV. ToC

       THE "BOYCOTTING" OF MR. BENCE JONES.

       XVI. ToC

       A CRUISE IN A GROWLER.

       XVII. ToC

       "BOYCOTTED" AT CHRISTMASTIDE.

       XVIII. ToC

       CHRISTMAS IN COUNTY CLARE.

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       BY THE RIGHT HON. HENRY FAWCETT, M.P.

       BY W.T. THORNTON, C.B.

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      Having been most cordially granted permission to republish these letters in a collected form, it is my duty to mention that my mission from the Daily News was absolutely unfettered, either by instructions or introductions. It was thought that an independent and impartial account of the present condition of the disturbed districts of Ireland would be best secured by sending thither a writer without either Irish politics or Irish friends—in short, one who might occupy the stand-point of the too-often-quoted "intelligent foreigner." Hence my little book is purely descriptive of the stirring scenes and deeply interesting people I have met with on my way through the counties of Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Cork, and Kerry. It is neither a political treatise, nor a dissertation on the tenure of land, but a plain record of my experience of a strange phase of national life. I have simply endeavoured to reflect as accurately as might be the salient features of a social and economic upheaval, soon I fervently hope, to pass into the domain of history; and in offering my work to the public must ask indulgence for the errors of omission and commission so difficult to avoid while travelling and writing rapidly in a country which, even to its own people, is a complex problem.

      B.H.B.

      Arts' Club, January 6th, 1881.