Erin Mor

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Excerpt from Erin Mor: The Story of Irish Republicanism The writer of the following pages candidly believes that while foreign rule has been the crowning and all-comprehending curse of Ireland, and while landlordism has been among its most potent ills, yet British free-trade, identical with the tariff reform which the Democratic party now seeks to inflict upon the United States, was the underlying, if not the immediate, cause of the terrible famine of 1846-47. Ireland, one year with another, produces sufficient food to fatten more than double its present population, yet among the working people there poverty is perpetual and famine periodical. Since the destruction of Ireland's manufacturing industries under the operations of free-trade, agriculture is the only important industry of the people, and a country devoted to agriculture alone is a country already doomed, while a nation whose industries are healthily diversified is proof against famine and decay. 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.