Contemporary Ireland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Contemporary Ireland II is the French that have come closest to the secret of Ireland. De Beaumont! That great pupil of De Tocqueville, in 1839, Cardinal Perraud in 1869, painted our national life with the authoritative brush of masters. In addition to these we have had an unbroken line of studies, sketches, and monographs, in Which Daryl, Béchaux, Le Roz, Fournier, Schindler, Potez, Filon, Flach, De Lavergne, and a cloud of other Witnesses have saidgtheir word. Edouard Rod shaped the personal tragedy of Parnell into a novel, and in one of his most recent stories Paul Bourget has shuddered at the dresses ofifashionable'gdublin, and yielded With lyrical abandon to the drowsy and purple magic of the Western lotus-land. M. Paul-dubois finds one half of the explanation of this old alliance in history, and the other in likeness of blood and temperament. In exchange for the swords of the Wild Geese, France sent us back priests, or at east the learning that turned Irish boys into priests. She sent too, in later and not less disastrous years, Hoche and Humbert and both nations have good memories, and until a very little While ago they shared a common hatred. The Irish mind, is, moreover, like the French, lucid, vigorous and positive, though less methodical, since it never had the happiness to undergo the Latin discipline. France and Ireland have been made to understand each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.