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absentee agitation allege amongst anti-Irish British Castle Catholic cause character Chartist cheers claims Clare clergy connexion constitution Cork corrupt countrymen county Clare county Cork declared defence Dublin Egans emancipation empire England English excited favour Feargus Feargus O'Connor Feargus's franchise friends gentleman Grattan hatred heart honour hostility House of Commons imprisonment independence influence interest Ireland Irish House Irish nation Irish parliament Irishmen justice labours land landlords leader legislature liament Liberator Lord Lord Gosford Macroom manufactures meeting ment mind moral named never NICHOLAS RIGBY O'Connell O'Connell's O'Connor object Orange and Green Papists parish parlia parliamentary party patriotism Peel perfectly persons political popular present prisoners Protestant Protestantism question racter Reform religious rendered rent Repeal Association reply result reverend RIGBY Roscrea sentiment Sir Robert Peel speech spirit strength tion tithes Tory triumph truth Unionists vote Whig writer
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Page 23 - Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He's all a knave or half a slave Who slights his country thus: But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us. We drink the memory of the brave, The faithful and the few Some lie far off beyond the wave, Some sleep in Ireland, too; All, all are gone - but still lives...
Page 368 - We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be- free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights; and in so just a pursuit, we should doubt the being of a Providence if we doubted of success.
Page 195 - ... a select committee to inquire and report on the means by which the dissolution of the parliament of Ireland was effected — on the effects of that measure upon Ireland, and upon the labourers in husbandry, and the operatives in manufactures in England — and on the probable consequences of continuing the legislative union between both countries.
Page 343 - There is not," said his lordship, " a nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures, with the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland.
Page 68 - A landlord is not a mere land merchant ; he has duties to perform as well as rents to receive, and from his neglect of the former springs his difficulty in the latter, and the general misery and distraction.
Page 342 - Ireland to the amount of near three millions in the manufactured articles of linen and linen yarn, and between two and three millions in provisions and cattle, besides corn and other articles of produce.
Page 344 - ... example of any other country of her extent — within these few years advancing with a rapidity, astonishing even to herself; not complaining of deficiency in any of these respects, but enjoying and acknowledging her prosperity.
Page 315 - They knew me — they appreciated me. They knew that I was the first apostle and founder of that sect of politicians whose cardinal doctrine is this — that the greatest and most desirable of political changes may be achieved by moral means alone, and that no human revolution is worth the effusion of one single drop of human blood. Human blood is no cement for the temple of human liberty.
Page 211 - What answer could be given to the Report of the Secret Committee of the Irish House of Commons, from which it appeared that a person, holding the rank of Colonel of the United Irishmen, had given to the government monthly reports of their secret meetings from March, 1797?
Page 262 - State that crowns a cankered fool, Gleam as gleam the gold and purple On a hot and rancid pool. Wear no show of wit or science, But the gems you've won, and weighed; Thefts, like ivy on a ruin, Make the rifts they seem to shade: Are you not a thief and beggar In the rarest spoils arrayed?