A History of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Volume 1

Voorkant
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1910
 

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Pagina 396 - That the churches of England and Ireland,, as now by law established, be united into one Protestant Episcopal Church, to be called The United Church of England and Ireland; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and...
Pagina 445 - When we have undermined English misgovernment we have paved the way for Ireland to take her place among the nations of the earth. And let us not forget that that is the ultimate goal at which all we Irishmen aim. None of us, whether we be in America or .in Ireland, or wherever we may be, will be satisfied until we have destroyed the last link which keeps Ireland bound to England.
Pagina 348 - To stimulate the improved cultivation of the land, and obtain security for the capital of tenants invested in the improvement of their holdings. 3. To encourage greater freedom in the cultivation of the soil and the disposal of its produce. 4. To obtain the abolition of class privileges involved in the Laws of Distress and Hypothec. 5. To promote the reform of the Game Laws. 6. To obtain the alteration of all legal presumptions which operate unfairly against tenant-farmers. 7. To secure to ratepayers...
Pagina 445 - I feel confident that we shall kill the Irish landlord system, and when we have given Ireland to the people of Ireland we shall have laid the foundation upon which to build up our Irish nation. The feudal tenure and the rule of the minority have been the corner-stone of English misrule. Pull out that corner-stone, break it up, destroy it, and you undermine English mis-government.
Pagina 245 - Irishman, coming from a country that had experienced to its fullest extent the results of English interference in its affairs and the consequences of English cruelty and tyranny, I feel a special satisfaction in preventing and thwarting the intentions of the Government in respect of this Bill.
Pagina 79 - That to render the Irish vote effective, we recommend that the Irish members shall form themselves into a permanent committee for the discussion of every ministerial and other proposal which affects the...
Pagina 10 - God save Ireland," said they all: "Whether on the scaffold high, or the battle-field we die, "O what matter, when for Erin dear we fall!
Pagina 50 - For my own part, I will own, that since I have come to contemplate the specific differences, such as they are, between simple Repeal and Federalism, I do at present feel a preference for the Federative plan, as tending more to the utility of Ireland and to the maintenance of the connection with England than the mode of simple Repeal.
Pagina 247 - I ought to forewarn you, gentlemen, that I have not yet been able to see how Ireland is to be freed by keeping the Speaker of the English House of Commons out of bed.
Pagina 41 - ... murdered all the same if the priest had not denounced him, but that denunciation of course made all the people in the neighbourhood think the deed a holy one instead of a diabolical one. The irritation and exasperation thence growing up in the public mind against the Catholic priesthood is extreme, and scarcely anybody now talks of these Irish murders without uttering a fervent wish that a dozen priests might be hung forthwith, and the most effectual remedy which has been suggested, and which...

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