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Title: Is Ulster Right?
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: August 10, 2004 [EBook #13157]
Language: English
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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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