Ireland

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Excerpt from Ireland: Vital Hour Ireland! - a thorny subject. Ireland! How shall I begin? Why not take up anew the old lamp of Truth and calmly look upon whatever that may light? It requires more courage to carry that lamp than to bear a standard on the battlefield. Be it so, the truth is all that in this life is consistent with itself. Better be dead than afraid of the Truth. I have set out to write a masculine book on Ireland, one which shall not hesitate to probe and test, yet shall be fraught with good purpose. I have resolved to direct my eyes to the future, taking from the past only what seems to me necessary to explain the present and to point the way of progress. Nearly all books on Ireland are of a partisan character, nearly all are drenched in the strife, the rancours, the miseries of epochs from which we would gladly escape. Oliver Cromwell oppressed Ireland! Let us regard that fact only for its information and its lesson, not to grow haggard in rage. Energy is too precious to spend in wasteful emotion. 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.