The famous cities of Ireland . ition to fight moresuccessfully for its own status. In the eighteenthcentury it was still part of the policy of State tomaintain if not to increase the Protestant interest inIreland; and Protestant farmers in that era won theUlster tenant right—which meant simply that thevalue created by a mans work on a farm could not DERRY 193 be confiscated at will by the landowner. It was wonby much the same means as were used in the nine-teenth century throughout the South and West ofIreland. Men were shot and were boycotted; therewere rough times before justice could be had
The famous cities of Ireland . ition to fight moresuccessfully for its own status. In the eighteenthcentury it was still part of the policy of State tomaintain if not to increase the Protestant interest inIreland; and Protestant farmers in that era won theUlster tenant right—which meant simply that thevalue created by a mans work on a farm could not DERRY 193 be confiscated at will by the landowner. It was wonby much the same means as were used in the nine-teenth century throughout the South and West ofIreland. Men were shot and were boycotted; therewere rough times before justice could be had. Butthe Protestant community of the plantation helpedto preserve some standard of what was due to labour,and though the example was lost on landlords in therest of Ireland, still it existed; and Derry is the towncreated by the men who kept that example was like a ray of rational order in a dark chaosof misgovernment; and, for the sake of it, Irelandowes, perhaps, more than she thinks to the spirit ofthe A Shopper. CHAPTER VJI LIMERICK Just as at Derry the mind, instead of travellingvaguely over a varied range of associations, fliesinstantly to one dramatic moment in the processionof the centuries, so, too, the very name of Limerickcalls up one turning point in history. Derry standsfor Derry Walls; Limerick for the Bridge of theBroken Treaty. At Derry, indeed, there is not much else for themind to dwell on, but very difl^erent is the case withLimerick. Like all the great seaports of the Southand West it first became of note when Danes settledthemselves on the island at the head of the Shannontideway and beside the lowest of the rapids. Beforetheir coming, Luimneach seems to have been thename generally given to the Shannons estuary; afterthey had fixed their settlement, the name localiseditself to the island stronghold defended on the eastby the Kings River, a kind of loop or branch cuttingoff this jutting stretch of meadow, round which, tothe westward, c
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