Excerpt from The Case of Ireland Stated Historically: From the Earliest Times to the Present; Together With a Gazetteer, Geographical, Descriptive and Statistical Late in the fall of 1879, when the wail of Irish woe, caused by evictions, and the cry of famine had reached the shores of this Western World, - while Parnell and Dillon were crossing the Atlantic for the purpose of telling to the American people the sad story of Ireland's pressing need; the questions on every tongue were: Why this ever-recurring misery in a land so bountiful? What is the cause? Where is the remedy? Simple questions, these; and almost every Irishman, feels that he knows himself, yet how few can give a prompt, satisfactory and laconic answer. Many an Irishman, yet living, is the victim of that villainous law of civilizing England, which made it a crime punishable by death, to teach or be taught the use of the alphabet in any language; - others who escaped partially from the operations of this accursed enactment bore with them that other accompanying legacy of English civilization to Ireland - penury. They had neither the means to purchase, nor the time to peruse the scattered chapters of Irish history. They were cast upon the world naked of everything, as it were. Their lands were stolen. Their goods were stolen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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