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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Is Ulster Right?, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Is Ulster Right? Author: Anonymous Release Date: August 10, 2004 [EBook #13157] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IS ULSTER RIGHT? *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Alison Hadwin and PG Distributed Proofreaders IS ULSTER RIGHT? A STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AT ISSUE BETWEEN ULSTER AND THE NATIONALIST PARTY, AND OF THE REASONS--HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND FINANCIAL--WHY ULSTER IS JUSTIFIED IN OPPOSING HOME RULE BY AN IRISHMAN LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1913 CONTENTS. Preface Chapter I. The Ulster Covenant. The Questions Stated. Ireland under the Celts and the Danes II. Ireland from the time of Henry II to the time of Henry VIII III. Ireland under the Tudors IV. The Seventeenth Century, until the end of the reign of James II V. The period of the Penal Laws VI. The earlier part of the reign of George III. The acquisition of independence by the Irish Parliament VII. The independent Parliament. The Regency Question. The commencement of the Rebellion VIII. The Rebellion IX. The Union X. The period from the Union until the rejection of the first Home Rule Bill XI. The Unionist Government of 1886 XII. The Gladstonian Government of 1892. The Political Societies XIII. Ireland under the present Government XIV. Criticism of the Bill now before the Country XV. The danger to the Empire of any form of Home Rule. The Questions answered Index PREFACE. In the following chapters I have endeavoured to lay before ordinary readers a simple statement of the present position of the Irish question. Following the maxim of Confucius that it is well "to study the Past if you would divine the Future," I have first shown that the tales which are told about the glories of the ancient Celtic Kingdom are foolish dreams, not supported by the accounts given by contemporary annalists or the investigations of modern writers, and that Ireland never was a nation in the political sense, with the possible exception of the few years between 1782 and 1800, during
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