The Present Case of Ireland Plainly Stated: A Plea for My People and RaceP.J. Kenedy, 1881 - 414 стор. |
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The Case of Ireland State: A Plea for My People and My Race Mary Francis Cusack Повний перегляд - 1880 |
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acres agitation Ballinasloe believe Bengal Bessbrook Cahirciveen Catholic cause cheers Coercion Bill Cork crime cultivators Daily Telegraph demand discontent distress district emigration England English Government English papers evicted evidence evil fact famine farm farmers favour freedom of contract Freeman's Journal gentlemen give Griffith's valuation hear holding honour improvements India industry injustice interest Ireland Irish affairs Irish land Irish landlords Irish tenants jury justice Kenmare Kerry Kilmallock labour Land Act land agent Land League landlord and tenant Lansdowne lease Leinster letter live Lord Lord Lansdowne Loughrea M'Carthy meeting ment millions miserable nation never O'Connor O'Dorney opinion outrages owner Parliament peace peasant persons political Poor Law population present priests proprietors protection question rack-rent refused relief soil tenantry tion tithes Tralee traverse truth valuation waste lands whole writing
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Сторінка 264 - It is well known, that in England and Scotland, before a landlord offers a farm for letting, he finds it necessary to provide a suitable farm-house, with necessary farm buildings, for the proper management of the farm.. He puts the gates and fences into good order, and he also takes upon himself a great part of the burden of keeping the buildings in repair during the term ; and the rent is fixed with reference to this state of things. Such, at least, is generally the case, although special contracts...
Сторінка 264 - ... which is thus employed to denote the necessary adjuncts to a farm, without which, in England or Scotland, no tenant would be found to rent it.
Сторінка 266 - And fear'st to die ? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, Upon thy back hangs ragged misery, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law : The world affords no law to make thee rich ; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Сторінка 373 - The available good land in India is nearly all occupied. There are extensive areas of good waste land, covered with jungle, in various parts of the country, which might be reclaimed and rendered suitable for cultivation, but for that object capital must be employed, and the people have little to spare. The produce of the country on an average of years is barely sufficient to maintain the present population and make a saving for occasional famine.
Сторінка 266 - ... of those who have been employed by the Crown ; and all tell you that the possession of land, is that which makes the difference between existing and starving amongst the peasantry, and that, therefore, ejections out of their holdings, are the cause of violence and crime in Ireland. In fact, it is no other than the cause, which the great master of human nature describes, when he makes a tempter suggest it as a reason to violate the law : — ' Famine is in thy cheeks, need and oppression stareth...
Сторінка 259 - The duties attached to landed property died away, or were forgotten — the ownership only remained. The people, retaining their tribal traditions, believed that they had rights upon the land on which they lived. The owner believed that there were no rights but his own. In England the rights of landlords have similarly survived their duties, but they have been modified by custom or public opinion. In Ireland, the proprietor was an alien, with the fortunes of the residents upon his estates in his...
Сторінка 258 - Of all the fatal gifts," says Mr. Froude, "which we bestowed on our unhappy possession was the English system of owning land. Land, properly speaking, cannot be owned by any man—it belongs to all the human race. Laws have to be made to secure the profits of their industry to those who cultivate it; but the private property of this or that person, which he is entitled to deal with as he pleases, land never ought to be, and never strictly is. In Ireland, as in...
Сторінка 177 - ... tenant-farmers, who with their families represent a population of more than three million people. These people depend upon the land for their subsistence, but they are tenants-at-will. Four-fifths of the landowners of Ireland live in England. Lord Dufferin, late Governor-General of Canada, once said: " What is the spectacle presented to us by Ireland ? It is that of millions of people, whose only occupation and dependence is agriculture, sinking their past and present and future on yearly tenancies....
Сторінка 165 - Irishmen not deficient in public spirit or probity were eager to break away from the Union and from all connection with England. At present they see with amazement and dismay a whole people who profess to have no confidence in their equity, who proclaim that they do not expect fair play from them, and who fall into ecstacies of triumph over some disaster abroad or embarrassment at home which endangers or humiliates the Empire ; and they will not take the obvious means of comprehending this phenomenon.