The Monster Misery of Ireland; A Practical Treatise on the Relation of Landlord and Tenant, with Suggestions for Legislative Measures, and the Management of Landed Property, the Result of Above Thirty Years' Experience and Study of the Subject
The Monster Misery of Ireland; A Practical Treatise on the Relation of Landlord and Tenant, with Suggestions for Legislative Measures, and the Management of Landed Property, the Result of Above Thirty Years' Experience and Study of the Subject
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. 1844 Excerpt: ... for it, although there may and must be other ingredients in the deadly cauldron. This, however, is "The monster evil in the Irish breast," which, "Like Aaron's serpent, swallows all the rest." About 1745, and at other periods, great efforts were made for "the improvement of Ireland," always, whatever may be said to ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ... for it, although there may and must be other ingredients in the deadly cauldron. This, however, is "The monster evil in the Irish breast," which, "Like Aaron's serpent, swallows all the rest." About 1745, and at other periods, great efforts were made for "the improvement of Ireland," always, whatever may be said to the contrary, a favourite and popular subject with the English. Diocesan or Charter Schools were established, with capital houses and nearly 100 acres of land to each. Everybody's sons were to learn everything; but before the end of that century the masters had become middlemen, the scholars had fled, and the houses had become dilapidated. 154 DECAY OF MANUFACTURES. Sessions and market houses were built in towns about the same period; inns established and furnished on a handsome scale; balls and assemblies regularly held; visiting and gaiety were the order of the day amongst the higher and middle classes; and to support this, the poorer classes were oppressed by rent. Alas! what baseless hilarity! what unfounded prosperity! all now fled--" like the baseless fabric of a vision," leaving nought but "wreck behind!" The Corinthian capital of aristocracy must rest upon the fluted pillar of the middle class, whilst this must be supported on the broad pedestal of the commonalty. Under these circumstances, we cannot say that the agrarial population of the south of Ireland is in a more prosperous state than it was thirty years ago; for, although we perceive cultivation creeping up the mountain-sides, we cannot but remember, that this is only the wretched tillage of the wretched cottar, who is allowed to plant his rood of potatoes, at the enormous rent of two pounds per annum; or has a forty-shilling franc...
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The author was an English land agent responsible for estates in Ireland; his 30 years of visits led him to blame "Irish agricultural backwardness" on the Irish estate managers [Joel Mokyr]. --304 pages, plus 48 pages publisher's ads (dated Jan. 1844). --Hardcover, original olive green publisher's cloth, with spine lettering quite bright and pages clean. Condition: good-only (cover separated from text block; 1-inch cloth tear at hinge, a few tiny cloth tears, corners lightly worn).
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