The world: historical and actual . generalfacts in this re-gard have beengiven in pre-vious greatestof Irish pa-triots was Dan-iel was a phe-nomenal ora-tor, the su-preme agita-tor. No revo-lution is worthone drop ofblood was hismotto. Con-vinced of thefutility of arm-ed resistance, he sought to secure by parliamentary jirocess themitigation of Irish grievances. His efforts were notwithout much success. Many infamous laws wererepealed inconsequent cof his agita-tion. Thelatest andmost for-midable re-bellion oc-curred in1798, andraged fortwo sup-pressed theIr
The world: historical and actual . generalfacts in this re-gard have beengiven in pre-vious greatestof Irish pa-triots was Dan-iel was a phe-nomenal ora-tor, the su-preme agita-tor. No revo-lution is worthone drop ofblood was hismotto. Con-vinced of thefutility of arm-ed resistance, he sought to secure by parliamentary jirocess themitigation of Irish grievances. His efforts were notwithout much success. Many infamous laws wererepealed inconsequent cof his agita-tion. Thelatest andmost for-midable re-bellion oc-curred in1798, andraged fortwo sup-pressed theIrish Par-liament at Dublin was abolished, and now Ireland is representedin the British Parliament. By far the greater part of the population of Ire-land is Catholic; but until 1869 the Episcopalchurch was the state church. In that year, after a long contest in parliament, it was disestablished and disendowed, and the endowment, except as used for annuities, was dedicated to educational and other secular pur- =«3? TOM HOlSK, DUBLIN. poses. That reformwas not satis-factory, how-ever, whereup-on a powerfulmovement wasi nauguratedfor securing re-form in the ten-ure of laud andthe relations oflandlord andtenant. Theleader in thismovement isMr. Parnell, alarge land own-er and Protest-ant who hasshown himselfto be a gi eat organizer, parliamentarian and de-bater. Eeform within the constitution is his aimand scope. The present ministry and parliament have beenalmost ab-sorbinglyoccu piedwith thissubject, andthe reform-ers have rea-son to takeheart, therebeing somechance thatthe Irishmay yet beplaced ona political and industrial equality with the English and Scotch,although much remains to be done. The statistics of Irish population are very remark-able, In 1750 the population was a trifle over 2,000-000, and in sixty years it lacked only a trifle of three -1 ^51 v 39° IRELAND AND THE IRISH. times that number; by 1841 it was over 8,000,000,Before another census, came the terrible famin
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