" (Annual Report of the
Irish Local Government Board for year ending March, 1902.)
Our impression as travellers was that the Irish County Councils do not
yet spend enough money on their roads.
THE HOME RULE CASE
THE CASE THAT HAS CHANGED--(CONTINUED)
i.--THE CONGESTED DISTRICTS
ii.--THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
iii.--OLD-AGE PENSIONS
iv.--THE UNIVERSITIES
"Although while I live I shall oppose separation, yet it is my
opinion that continuing the Legislative Union must endanger the
connection."
O'CONNELL
(1834).
CHAPTER III.
THE HOME RULE CASE
But Land Purchase and County Councils are only part of the great change
that has come over Ireland since 1893.
There are other great transformations. There is the redemption of the
congested districts. There is the revival of agriculture. There is the
Old Age Pensions Act. Finally, there is the reform of the Universities.
THE CONGESTED DISTRICTS BOARD
Take, first, the daring policy of social renovation by which the
forlorn peasantry of the West are being saved from the grey wilderness
into which they had been thrust by the landlordism of 1830 to 1880.
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