Publisher’s Announcement By the Same Author The Campaign of 1815: Ligny, Quatre Bras, Waterloo. Demy 8vo, cloth, with Maps, 12 s. 6 d. net. M. Houssaye, in a letter to the author, says, “J’ai lu avec beaucoup de plaisir votre livre sur La Campagna de 1815. C’est un excellent résumé, copieux et critique, tres judicieux, tres précis, et tres clair.” Captain Mahan, in a letter to the author, says, “Your narrative is very clear, and to me quite convincing.” The Times : “We can recommend this book

I have written much on Ireland from early youth, especially in the Edinburgh Review and the Times ; and two works of mine, ‘Ireland, 1494-1868’ published in ‘The Cambridge Historical Series,’ and ‘Ireland, 1798-1898,’ have been received with more than ordinary favour. I have ventured to think that the opinions of a veteran inquirer into Irish affairs, with respect to ‘Present Irish Questions’ just now of much importance, and certain to be ere long fully discussed in Parliament and elsewhere, may

IRELAND IN 1901 Ireland has passed through a revolution in the Victorian age—Material progress—Dublin—Belfast—Improvement in Catholic places of worship and in the habitations of the people—State of the Irish community—Symptoms of retrogression—Decline of agriculture—The progress of Ireland much less than that of England and Scotland, and why—State of the Irish land system—Recent legislation has done some good, but it has been unjust, and has had pernicious effects—Ireland divided into three peop

THE QUESTION OF HOME RULE The question of Home Rule not extinct—The reasons—Butt’s scheme of Home Rule—It is denounced and ridiculed by Mr. Gladstone, and defeated in the House of Commons—Death of Butt—The Home Rule movement becomes allied with a foreign conspiracy—Davitt and Parnell—The Land League—Mr. Gladstone’s surrender to it—The movement makes no progress in the Parliament of 1880-85—The General Election of 1885—Mr. Gladstone suddenly adopts the policy of Home Rule—The probable reasons—The

THE QUESTION OF THE IRISH LAND—SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE LAND SYSTEM OF IRELAND TO THE YEAR 1870 For some time it seemed as though the forecasts made by the great majority of our statesmen would prove correct. The immense emigration from Ireland to the United States had important results, unfortunate in many respects; but the uplifting of redundant millions from the soil greatly contributed to the country’s welfare. Holdings were consolidated over very large areas, a beneficent process, if hu

THE QUESTION OF THE IRISH LAND ( continued )—THE IRISH LAND ACT OF 1870—THE LAND LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL LEAGUE—THE LAND OF 1881—SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION AS REGARDS THE LAND SYSTEM OF IRELAND State of landed relations in Ireland in 1869-70—Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister—The Land Act of 1870—Its merits and defects—A short period of prosperity in Ireland—Ominous symptoms—Michael Davitt—The teaching of John Finton Lalor in 1848—The ‘New Departure’ in Fenianism arranged in America—Foundation of the Land

THE QUESTION OF THE IRISH LAND ( continued )—THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE IRISH LAND ACTS The administration of the Land Act of 1870 in the main good—Difficulty about claims for tenants’ improvements—The administration of the Land Act of 1881, and of its supplements—The Land Commission and its Sub-Commissions—Allowances to be made for these tribunals—Principles which the Land Commission should have adopted in fixing ‘fair rents’—The procedure and practice it ought to have established—It made mistak

THE QUESTION OF THE IRISH LAND ( continued )—PROPOSED REFORM OF THE IRISH LAND SYSTEM...

THE QUESTION OF THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND The subject briefly considered—Financial position of Ireland before 1782, and under Grattan’s Parliament—Her taxation and debt small before 1798—Ireland financially a distinct country—At the Union, Pitt wished to ‘assimilate her in finance’ with Great Britain, but this impossible, and why—Ireland’s contribution after the Union—This was unjust, but it left her financially a distinct country—Ireland made nearly bankrupt—The

THE QUESTIONS OF IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION—OTHER QUESTIONS—CONCLUSION Irish county government—The grand jury system in the eighteenth century—Its merits and defects—The grand jury system in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1836—The Irish poor law system—Elected and ex-officio guardians—The local government of cities and towns in Ireland—Municipal institutions founded in Ireland by the Norman kings—Why they did not prosper—Boroughs and municipalities founded by James I. and

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT BILL, 1886. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Part I. Schedules. A Bill to amend the provision for the future Government of Ireland. [ A.D. 1886. Be it enacted by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Part I. Legislative Authority. 1. On and after the appointed day there shall be established in Ireland a Legislature cons

From the ‘Memoirs of the late Lord Selborne’ (Part ii. pp. 261-263). ... Each new step Gladstone takes is, as it seems to me, more and more on the side of moral as well as political evil. Much as I disapproved of his surrender of last year to Parnell, I disapprove very much more of his present endeavour to prevent the restoration in the present stage of the Home Rule question, of the reign of law in Ireland, and of the means he is attempting to use for that purpose. Deliberate and organised obst

Report of Special Commission (Vol. iv. pp. 544, 545). Conclusions of the Report of the Judges. We have now pursued our inquiry over a sufficiently extended period to enable us to report upon the several charges and allegations which have been made against the respondents, and we have indicated in the course of this statement our findings upon these charges and allegations, but it will be convenient to repeat seriatim the conclusions we have arrived at upon the issues which have been raised for o