The CardersC. Knight, 1825 - Ireland |
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Page 66 - ... (1825) and Michael Banim's Crohoore of the Billhook (1825), the most bloodthirsty of them all. Agrarian violence is caused by religion, and inflamed by its bitterness. Eyre Evans Crowe demonstrates its ugliness in The Carders, in his Today in Ireland (1825). Carders are Rockites, disruptive to society: Treason certainly is a tempting crime to the members of an oppressed church, and of an ancient and fallen family. But for some reason or other, there is no country in Europe, except perhaps modern...
Page 117 - m thinking it might be worth a body's while to come forward. '' " A decent murder!" repeated Mr. Crostwhaite with a smile; " fie, fie, Blaney! But you are nevertheless very right in supposing that the time for coming forward to advantage would be after some shocking act of the kind, that would stir up at once people's fears for themselves, and their gratitude towards their defenders: for this reason, I think you had better lie by;—taking up and prosecuting now, could at best end but in a few transportations.
Page 117 - True, true, Blaney, something have, something do," said the Curate. Here was a pause, which at length the clown broke, as he thought he had discovered the conditions which might lead to his being handsomely rewarded. " If there was a dacent murder, your worship, I 'm thinking it might be worth a body's while to come forward.
Page 32 - No less than a dozen self-constituted informers contrived to introduce themselves to him, each with accounts of oaths, plots, and meditated massacres, that made Mr. Crostwhaite's hair stand on end; and the eloquence of the lying rogues so wrought upon the magistrate, that his terrors duped him into a belief of all he heard, by the half too much, as our proverb-learned readers know.
Page 31 - ... useless expense to the parish. Why the clergyman should not have followed his utterer of responses, few could tell: but, as the present rector could not conveniently reside in his parish, being, to tell the truth, comfortably immured within the walls of the King's Bench...
Page 120 - Ye want it in blood then ?" answered the informer; " didn't you while ago bid me lie by ?" " Yes, and bid you still. It is not blood we look for yet at your hands, but a hint; some sound and solid fact, an emissary's or a leader's name, that we may watch him, and know how to trust you.
Page 114 - ... to reconnoitre in safety the challenger below. Having thus satisfied himself of his man by an interchange of words, he descended, secured the door of his kitchen against any interruption on the part of the old crone, his only domestic, and then cautiously unbarring his...
Page 30 - His dress of rusty black, and long boots ungarnished by a top, bespoke the man, what scarce could have been guessed, a cleric, whilst the pockets of his scanty spencer, weighed down as they half displayed a pair of moderate-sized pistols, seemed incongruous appendages to a minister of peace.
Page 32 - Crostwhaite sally forth upon his garran, armed at all points, summon, by virtue of his commission, the unwilling soldiery to accompany him, and make his Majesty's forces patrol bogs and bivouac in a roofless barn, without committing any further exploit on the march than challenging, perhaps, a stray pig, or vainly sacking a cow-house for concealed arms.