The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . eld, and who were regarded and ircatcil as inferior beings in every respect and onevery occasion when the ojiportiiniiy offered itself or wascreated. This policy, which, in the HkIU of experience, everyhistorian has branded as fatuous and inexcusable, was adminis-tered from Dublin, and was i)roductive of continual discontent,strife, and bloodshed, both within and without the magic circledrawn by the second Henry. The high-minded, sensitive, and
The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . eld, and who were regarded and ircatcil as inferior beings in every respect and onevery occasion when the ojiportiiniiy offered itself or wascreated. This policy, which, in the HkIU of experience, everyhistorian has branded as fatuous and inexcusable, was adminis-tered from Dublin, and was i)roductive of continual discontent,strife, and bloodshed, both within and without the magic circledrawn by the second Henry. The high-minded, sensitive, andimpulsive natives brooded over the contempt and harshnesswith which they were treated ; their bards and musicians wroteabout and sang their wrongs, and the consequences, whichkindness and justice wisely tempered would have obviated,are to be read to-day in many a crimson page of history. Itwas these invidious and evil-working distinctions, which accom-panied the very inception of English rule in Ireland, that ledEdmund Burke to exclaim, in the IVitish House of Commons,that a spirit of hostility to the Irisii began before the differences. the Irish Parliament to measures which had iircviously beenapproved of in ICngland, acted as the Dukes \III. was very watchful and active in all State affairs,and his religious innovations caused much commotion through-out the country. Dublin did not escape them, for among themonasteries which he dissolved was that of All Hallows,founded by Dermot, King of Leinster, on the site nowoccupied by Trinity College. It may seem incongruous to sayso, but this monarch was, as far as Ireland is concerned,anxious to effect many beneficial changes. The records ofhis iconoclastic reign furnish abundant [)roof of the truth ofthis assertion. He saw the evils from which that part ofthe country which acknowledged his domination was suffer-ing, and was anxious to apply effective remedies. Indeed,even in our own time, some of the sayings attributed t
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