The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-07
Sunday, December 2. 1879
IRELAND.


The area of Ireland Is 1881 square
miles, and its population Is estimated
at s. 3cs. 900. During the past forty
years its inhabitants have decreased 10
number from S.199.333. or loss OF
fully one-third. Ireland hiss . coast
line Of nearly . thousand miles. has
ninety bsrbors aud ewo hundred isl
ands. Its annual rainfall 10 in the
neix hborhood of SO inches. The poo
pie are Of Cslto-P hen,cian origin. and
in mature ere impuIsive and warm
hearted. Whsrsvsr you 90 you vii
find Irishmen, in any quarter VI nook
Of the world. 10 the army and navy.
in politics, religion and trade. in the
mines, on the farm snd in town
everywhere. Having no home Ut home
they make the world their bono. Ire
lands earlier history. ike that OF
France. Britain and other parts Of Eu-
rope. is clothed in dar kness. uncertainty
and tradition. Nine hundred years
before the Christian Era 10 about - far
back - any authentic account OF the
Emerald Isle goes. Patrick, sfterwards
the Saint. Arst saw Ireland in the year
48O-fousteen hundred years ago
when be vas Is years Of age. In 40
be began the conversion Of the people.
founding the first Christian Church IN
Ulstee. Under mis- seslous lead aud
management the faith 20 doutished
that Ireland became known on the
Continent - the uoly Island. InvA-
SONS and wars followed one another
the Britons. Danes aud others every
few years swooping dowa on the coast
and spreading desolation and terror
inland. About lO02 B,isn Boru sx-
PEELED all intrnders shd wss crowned
King OF Tara. After his death the
country was divided into ave petty
kiagdoms, which carried on Q continual
warfare. One party after another so
licitsd aid from the English. sgainst
their neighbors and brothers. and thu
English were glad enough for the ex
cuss to plant themselves on Irish soil.
Henry II. landed with an army at Wat
erford. in iii, and from that time to
this Ireland has been wholly or partly
under the dominion Of England. Tue
last Of the Irish kings was Roierick.
who died in 1893. For hundreds Of
years the Irish openly and braveiy re-
sisted tho ipvader. aud in fact have
ever been FESTIVE under the foreign
yoke aud eager for tbs opportunity to
throw it of. Qasen Eliza
beth spent millions Of treasure aud
100000 lives in the vain sndeavor to
force the Protestant religion upon her
Irish subjects. An insurrecsion aud
religious war having broken our. Crom.
we'll. in l649, invaded the country, and
broke up all the Roman Catholic
stronsholds and dispersed the armies
Again. forty years later, open hostiIi-
ties prevailed. which we're suppressed
after much bloodshed BY the strong
hand Of William Of Orange. From that
time to this persecution has been the
lot aud portion Of Ireland and her
people. Every little while il would
bscoms Undesirable. and open resist-
auce would tnsus. the ending Of which
in every caso Was found in blood, %
the gallows or IN sslf-impossi exile.
The most serious Of these Affairs was
the rebellion cf 1898. which cost the
Irish 80 600 men and the Eoglish 20.
700 men aad $50, QUO, O00. Robert EN-.
met and D.uiel O'Counell came next,
the efforts # the former resulting Ia
his own execution .nd no direct good.
.shils tho.e Of the later very materially
amsllorased the condition of his coun--
tryhsn. The famine Of lSl7 wss suc-
cesded by the disturbance Ut l64S.
conducted BY john Aitcn.ll. W +
Neagher and others. which. like I'll
previous Efforts. eni~d In disaster aud
death 10 oil concernsd. Fehsanssna
came later. the hiss.ry Of which il y. I
fresh In the minl, 81 all. The p-e.sss
movement Is gisen the name Of home
Rule, aud IL ia the shape 1t LasS NJ
The British 0ovsrnment has already
entered upon its suppression. the aat'
como Of which eEort t,nle will speedily
make eviic.t. The s,ruggics Of the
Irish for self gov.rnmsnt are tho mas,
noted Of their kind in the history n
tho world. Ihose at the Poles are Al
nothing IN comparison. aud Il they had
had to deal With any other peopic thar
thu Eagl,sh they would have beer
moro than suecessfal hundreds at year
ego. The English have no right Il
talk of the harshness Of Russia, 70
their Own trratmsut Of broken Irelani
surpass<s in long cootsnusd cruelt!
and hardness anything jet seen else
where on the surface al the earth.
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