The world: historical and actual . me sections of tire about 100,000 of thepeople who speak nothing else,and many more who speak bothit and English. There is asmall body of literature in this language, but- it is devoidof much merit. The Irishmen who have excelled asauthors have used the English language. ThomasMoore and the historian Locky may be mentionedas Irishmen who have enriched literature. The island is divided into thirty-two counties andthe four provinces of Lemster, Minister, Connaughtand Ulster. The latter is in the north and largelysettled by Protestants, many of the
The world: historical and actual . me sections of tire about 100,000 of thepeople who speak nothing else,and many more who speak bothit and English. There is asmall body of literature in this language, but- it is devoidof much merit. The Irishmen who have excelled asauthors have used the English language. ThomasMoore and the historian Locky may be mentionedas Irishmen who have enriched literature. The island is divided into thirty-two counties andthe four provinces of Lemster, Minister, Connaughtand Ulster. The latter is in the north and largelysettled by Protestants, many of them of Scotchdescent. The relations of landlord and tenant areregulated in that province by just customs havingthe force of law. There is no mining of any consequence in Ireland,mid very little manufacturing. Belfast spins a greatdeal of flax and makes large quantities of linen, butthat once-flourishing industry was crushed to deathin other parts of Ireland by the British governmentin the interest of Protestant manufacturers. At one. time southern Ireland displayed, remarkable aptitudefor this branch of skilled labor, and if events hadbeen allowed to take their normal course, Irish lin-en would have made that island rich and policy of the British government was protectiveto one section and prohibitory to another. OnceEngland imported its linen from that part ofthe island. Heavy export duties ruined the busi-ness where the peojjle were Catholics, while Prot-estant Belfast was exempt from this unjust discrimination extended frcm 1699 to1828, when its object had been completely linen thus affords a striking instance of both sectional and sectarian iniquity. From the eighth to the elev-enth century was the period ofIrelands greatest comparativecivilization. During that pe-riod it was more advanced inlearning and culture than En-gland, and certainly not inferiorto any part of the continent ex-cept Moorish Spain. Collegesflourished and the
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