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Gladstone, Parnell, and the Great Irish Struggle

Gladstone, Parnell, and the Great Irish Struggle

O'Connor, Thomas Power

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ISBN10: 1153634724
ISBN13: 9781153634724
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.37 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...interruption for three fierce years. The contest was opened by an action against Mr. O'Brien for seditious libel. The meaning of seditious libel is any attack upon the Administration not agreeable to the officials then in power. An action of this character is, of course, no longer possible in England. In the midst of this trial a vacancy arose in the representation of Mallow. It had been arranged before, that whenever the General Election came, Mr. O'Brien, as a Mallow man, should appeal to the town to join the rest of the country in the demand for Irish rights. The opportunity had come sooner than anybody had anticipated. The prosecution of O'Brien by the Government lent a singular character to the struggle, and a further element of significance was added by the Government sending down Mr. Naish, their new Attorney-General, as his opponent. Mallow had been a favorite ground for the race of corrupt place-hunters in the period when a place in Parliament was the only avenue to legal promotion. The contest for Mallow, under circumstances like these, attracted an immense amount of attention, and all Ireland looked to the result with eagerness. But the reputation of Mallow had been so bad for so many years that the utmost expectation was that Mr. O'Brien would be returned by a small majority. The change that had come over all Ireland was shown when it was found that O'Brien had been returned by a majority of 72. John E. Redmond is one of the orators of the Irish party. He speaks with clearness, courtesy and at the same time with deadly vigor. He is the man of all others to put into a difficult situation--cool, self-controlled, a perfect master of fence. There is no Scylla or Charybdis through which he cannot steer the barque of his words. He has don...

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