Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland, 1831-1881, Vol. 1 of 2
From the middle Of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the end aimed at by the policy of the English Government in Ireland was the conversion of the Irish people to the reformed faith, and their incorporation, in language and feeling, with the English name and nation. That the Irish should be made Protestant in creed, andenglish in sentiment, was, not unnaturally, deemed, by those who had com pleted the conquest Of the island in the Sixteenth cen tury, the most essential requisite for consolidating their own power, and uniting the people of the two countries. This being the end in View, the means employed by English sovereigns and statesmen to effect it were unquestionably neither very just nor very wise. 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.
