New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
IpEI.ANN

H. A.. Barriserat-Law' i-'uo' ~ N'
Harper Brothers ~, ,,-,,
- r,olisbmon and Protestant Mr.. Walpole
80 ha,alv be suspected of an extravagant pat
,;ti,1 tovard the country whose miserable his'oly
IA has undertaken to tell and yet more shocN-
INC tale of injustice rapacty, cruelty mean"osS
and fraud has seldom been spread before tue
world than the narrative OF Englands dealings
with the sister island as il stands in his measufeu
and unimpaSsoned statements. Making DO p'o-
tence of original research. his task has been 10
vast and confused of facts into or'ei sp"'o
and clear order: and he has done TINS so wei .'i'
. ch.o,ar of history which we are but too often
content TO skip acquires from his eueo''1 D",
tremelv simple treatment an almost aoso'o'is
;,,oroot Spcb n hook is timely; cannot under
s,a,d the dntv 10 which the present Lioefal Wv
o,,pent of Great Britain is honoIably appSins !"
col, in Irplaud without realizing the appai''ns
courss of wrong which has TO bs retraceu al" '"o
centuries of inherited hate to be iorgct'eh' L'e'9
bndv knows IN general way. that the irish nave
snaered greatly from their English masters; ie"'
-, freshmen are aware how bad the case
rally is The characteristic merit OF thls oooh Is
1be distinctness with which 1t sets lorUh Ino
nature of the English domination IN lrelahu' now ~
was founded, how it was extended aud now IL mas
been maintained. >, -
The ;nvasions in the reign of Henry H. were
Norman
,oted nv ouarrels among the island cheftans VINO
80 not unwilling TO use the foreigner against
choir own countrrmen. But from the latter part
Of tina twefth century to the the end OF the severn
teentb the cunauerors pursued one lnvarlaoie
noIicv Of naked theft. Their lncurslohS "oIo VI" :"
mar with the adventures OF the SpahiatuS ~
America a series of raids upon territory "SSu'eu
10 be open to conquest and coiohlZatioh' nv
Irish were not supposed 10 have any better ute 10
their lands chan the Indians whom CorteA an" MS
companlons appropriated in repdrt~leAtoS anu SUN
70 death in the mines. The SOIL was cohiSo"'ou >
,ho ,otive occupiers were driven off or reduced to
virtual seryitude; the spoil was divided among
Tnclish court favortes aud soldiers Of fortune !;
onI ,ba " plantations" thus formed were expected
IN maintain the English ascendancy Plantag
onets Tudors and Stuarts gave away populous
counties in Ireland as freely English, French ana
Soanish kings disposed OF the wilderness III
America By the beginning of the Thirteenth cen
tnry the entire island had thus been parceied out
10 strangers The original owners became beggars'
laborers or tenants at will upon what was really
their own land The brutality with which this
spo!lation was accompanied or followed may be M
1erred from statute of Henry VI, which empow-
cred the coonists to bchead aIiy person found
thieving by night day, or suspected OF 'hat
ipteutD while TO trade with the native Irish v as
Government to keep the two races apart there al
yays epsued an extensive intermXture OF blood,
with tine result that the new -cOmeIs adopted many
of fine customs and feelings and sometimes even the
language of the conquered people, and then they
too were prosecuted and despOled. FROM the tine
OF Henry VII. little Or no distinction was made be-
tween the Irish ana the Anglo-lrsh; the latter
indeed were the chief sufferers, because they had
the most to lose In reading therefore OF the enor-
nous anu repeated considerations during the Tudor
and Stuart reigns, ii is to be remembered that the
Victims were i'm many cases the descendartS OF IN
trnders the same land was seized over and over
again; and some of the most dangerous ahd per-
sistent "rebels against England in after years
were men who. as their names Indicate "efe VI
English or Norman origin
With Henry VIII. began the attempt TO fasten
upon the conquered island not only foreign yoke
but with 1t a hated ligion and this process like
tho n,axious one was attended by the wholesale
aprropriatIon OF Lands, some of which were be-
slowed upon the new clergy while large part was
retained by the Crown or given 10 royal taYOrltes
Elizabeth made present to the Earl OF EsSeX oil
half the county of Antrim and part oil Mona
ghau, and advanced him money for the expense or
driving ont the inhabitants of the district, most of
whom we're Scots In the same reign company
of adventures including SIR Humphrey Gilbert
and Sir Richard Granville undertook to relieve
the Queen of all expense and trouble in Southern
ireland in return for permission to cOniiscate the
couuties of Cork, Limerick and Kerry" This en-
terprise led to the Desmond rebellion, and the
rebellion was followed a natter of course by
coniiscations. When Elizabeth sent Pelham and
Ormonde TO put down this rising the path of their
two armies was marked by pitess destruction Of
life and property: crops and cabins were burned,
and every living beng, the Sick the aged. the
women the infants, were all ruthlessy slaughtered
Ormonde, in State paper enumerating mis-
services Is said to have put to death SO captains
and leaders, with 1,547 notorious TRAITORS and
nalefqctors. and above 1000 others" rhe sword
and the gallows the instruments for paciiy
ing the country. Achin seized the castle OF David
Purcell az Kildimo, and slew $50 women and
children; OrmOnde caught and hanged Lady Fitz-
GERALD of lmokelly. and reports in his dispatches
tho execution of 1874 persons, and that the par
doned chiefs were bringing in the heads of other
rebels by the sackful" Famine and pestllence fol-
lowed the march, for the crops were systematically
destroyed, not as measure against armies IN the
field but in order TO reduce the people. The whole
of the fertile and pUpuOus province of Munster
WAS reduced to a desert: d" a most plentiful cOun-
try.D wrote the poet Spcnser who shared in the
campaign and the plumber, left void OF man and
beast" Ulster was soon afterward reduced 10 star
walton as "a consequence of the rising of Tyrone.
MORRISON, who was secretary to the Lord Deputy,
tells nov young children were trapped and eaten
bv starving women who hiding III the woods
on the Newry; and how he and Sir Arthur Chi
chester witnessed the horrible spectacle of three
young children devouring the enTals of their dead
mother" James /. coniscated the whole OF Ulster
six cOunties--by a single stroke of the pen. aud
undertook to wipe out everything and plant it
anew with Protestant and anti Irish population.
That, AM not any religious revolution was the
origin of Irish Professionalism to which all political
rights and privileges subsequently confined
The natives were removed co the " lean lands" and
a L. L., IL. tnln ~ IL.