criptive of the stirring scenes and deeply
interesting people I have met with on my way through the counties of
Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Cork, and Kerry. It is neither a
political treatise, nor a dissertation on the tenure of land, but a
plain record of my experience of a strange phase of national life. I
have simply endeavoured to reflect as accurately as might be the
salient features of a social and economic upheaval, soon I fervently
hope, to pass into the domain of history; and in offering my work to
the public must ask indulgence for the errors of omission and
commission so difficult to avoid while travelling and writing rapidly
in a country which, even to its own people, is a complex problem.

B.H.B.

ARTS' CLUB, _January 6th, 1881._

CONTENTS.

PAGE
I.
AT LOUGH MASK 1

II.
AN AGRARIAN DIFFICULTY 18

III.
LAND MEETINGS 26

IV.
MISS GARDINER AND HER TENANTS 52

V.
FROM MAYO TO CONNEMARA 70

VI.
THE RELIEF OF MR. BOYCOTT 120

VII.
MR. RICHARD STACPOOLE 153

VIII.
PATRIOTS 160

IX.
ON THE FERGUS 166

X.
PALLAS AND THE PALLADIANS 191

XI.
GOMBEEN 207

XII.
THE RETAINER 215

XIII.
CROPPED 225

XIV.
IN KERRY 232

XV.
THE "BOYCOTTING" OF MR. BENCE JONES 262

XVI.
A CRUISE IN A GROWLER 279

XVII.
"BOYCOTTED" AT CHRISTMASTIDE 307

XVIII.
CHRISTMAS IN COUNTY CLARE 328

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[Illustration: (foldout Map of Ireland, showing author's route.)]

[Illustration: (foldout detail map of western Ireland, showing author's route.)]

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DISTURBED IRELAND.

I.

AT LOUGH MASK.

WESTPORT, CO. MAYO, _Oct. 24._

The result of several days' incessant tra