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... . THE LAND QUESTION VII . THE LAND ACT OF 1870 , AND THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT • VIII . CONCLUSION INDEX • · 423 435 449 463 472 485 496 504 509 INTRODUCTION ' THE annals of Ireland present to the historian viii CONTENTS.
... . THE LAND QUESTION VII . THE LAND ACT OF 1870 , AND THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT • VIII . CONCLUSION INDEX • · 423 435 449 463 472 485 496 504 509 INTRODUCTION ' THE annals of Ireland present to the historian viii CONTENTS.
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... present to the historian a melan- choly field , and one which few historians have cared to cultivate . Compared with those of France or Scotland , they are wanting in brilliant figures and dramatic situations . They seldom cross the ...
... present to the historian a melan- choly field , and one which few historians have cared to cultivate . Compared with those of France or Scotland , they are wanting in brilliant figures and dramatic situations . They seldom cross the ...
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... present day , and were always on the verge of famine . Speaking the Gaelic tongue only , without education or the means of getting it , professing a proscribed religion , ignorant of the laws they were expected to obey , they had ...
... present day , and were always on the verge of famine . Speaking the Gaelic tongue only , without education or the means of getting it , professing a proscribed religion , ignorant of the laws they were expected to obey , they had ...
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... present volume , which opens with the Treaty of Limerick , signed in 1691 , and broken almost before its ink was dry , relates in detail how this task was dealt with . But before I close these introductory remarks , a few words may be ...
... present volume , which opens with the Treaty of Limerick , signed in 1691 , and broken almost before its ink was dry , relates in detail how this task was dealt with . But before I close these introductory remarks , a few words may be ...
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... present purpose . He first sums up in a few words the action of the British Government down to the Revolution ; then giving the number of acres of arable land in the whole country , and the number of acres confiscated in each of the ...
... present purpose . He first sums up in a few words the action of the British Government down to the Revolution ; then giving the number of acres of arable land in the whole country , and the number of acres confiscated in each of the ...
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