Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . Ornament on leather case of Book of Petries Round HENRY GRATTAX. SECTION IV. IN THE DAYS OF GRATTAN BY SIR JONAH BARRINGTON, LL. D., K. C. CONTAINING DESCRIPTION OF IRELAND IN THE DAYS OF GRATTAN—SCENES INTHE IRISH PARLIAMENT—DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS—THE VOLUNTEERS PROCLAIM THE INDEPENDENCE OF IRE-LAND—THE PASSING OF THE ACCURSED UNION-SKETCHES OF GRATTAN, FLOOD, CHARLE-MONT, CURRAN AND OTHERS 271 IN T
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . Ornament on leather case of Book of Petries Round HENRY GRATTAX. SECTION IV. IN THE DAYS OF GRATTAN BY SIR JONAH BARRINGTON, LL. D., K. C. CONTAINING DESCRIPTION OF IRELAND IN THE DAYS OF GRATTAN—SCENES INTHE IRISH PARLIAMENT—DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS—THE VOLUNTEERS PROCLAIM THE INDEPENDENCE OF IRE-LAND—THE PASSING OF THE ACCURSED UNION-SKETCHES OF GRATTAN, FLOOD, CHARLE-MONT, CURRAN AND OTHERS 271 IN THE DAYS OF GRATTAN. BY SIR JONAH BARKINCTON, LL. 1)., K. C. CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF Irelands depressed condition—Ireland aroused by AMERICAN independence. More than six centuries liad passed away since Irelandhad first acknowledged a subordinate connection with theEnglish Monarchy—her voluntary but partial submission tothe sceptres of Henry and of Richard had been construed bytheir successors into the right of conquest—and the samespirit of turbulence and discord which had generated thetreachery and treasons of M]\[orrough was carefully cul-tivated by every English potentate as the most effectual bar-rier against the strug
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