And yet people
talk as if Ulster was entirely Unionist!
[49] Many of these experiences were narrated to me personally by the
sufferers, and consisted of boycotting in religion, trade and social
life.
[50] There are now eight Protestants among the Nationalist Party. The
directors of Maynooth College told us that the two best friends of
their college were Burke and Grattan. A portrait of Grattan hangs in
their hall. It was, too, a Catholic Corporation that re-gilded the
statue of William III.--William of Orange--at Dublin.
HOME RULE DIFFICULTIES
ROME RULE _or_ HOME RULE?
"There is a principle on our part which must ever prevent
(Catholicism being established) in Ireland. It is this--that we
are thoroughly convinced that it would be the surest way of
de-Catholicising Ireland. We believe that tainting our Church
with tithes and giving temporalities to it would degrade it in
the affections of the people."
O'CONNELL.
"I want soldiers and sailors for the State; I want to make a
greater use than I now can do of a poor country full of men.
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