The sun., 1884-11-02
LIFE IN TUE ISLES OF ARRAM
A Characteristic Description OF the Tyranny
or an Eng .lsh Landlord.

| OF Galway In the west Of ireland. As no OK
| plains. these tenants not only pay exorbitaht
ronts but in fact. they make the land. as Tar as
| 1t Is arabic. by carrying tho earth from dis
| tance In kroels on thoir backs and covering tho
| bleak rocks with IT,
These islnnders-al along tho western COAST
| arc tho most iaborious peasants In Europe.
| They arc tho last remnants OF the old Celtic
| stock unmixcd with tho blood Of othcr races.
| Only the old Irish tongue IL spoken ON those
| islands ds-excepting at tho lighthouse. or by n
| magistrate, or by tho agent OF the landlord. or.
| when there is one stationed there. by the parsh
| priest. The people arc addressed In Celtic Mt
| tho Catholic chapels. Indeed. most OF them.
| especially the women and children. can neithcf
| speak nor understand a syllable OF Eaglish.
Mr.. Timothy Harrington. In describing lifo
| in the western isIcs. told mo the story
Of peasant who said 70 him on one visit
that he intended to 20 to America next
| month" About year aiterward Mr.. HarrinG-
yo Ss S. ssd Ss"1 % %G hs
And sure did. then" said the peasant in
htask asslns; came near @ dy"s viii With the hansai
"H"w:s ihat2" asked the es,ator. II nsves;
Sure but came near II: . said the islander.
talk !" @ word Si' Of tho ir,sh and SO every one
spoke to couldn't undcisiand aword i said TO
| mara man and lie took mo to u boarding house
air. spots %s fSe' iSe Irsh and % fon S he Eo
horses didn't understand tho Irish 1 came right
The people on all of these isles. thus iso-
tue the liio OF tho nainiAnd. wsre-and mos, Of
them stll aroaIns thS mos, 1d,S5 w5e,ehsd r,, G
O'ils,liy mentions recant Instance Of cruelty
by Mr.. Thopps9n, tho ArN.n land agent; but
Ss Lana sr sSEas sSan
| erond contributor describes.
cahSe MsSn dara f"ast 1 G'fsss s Tsnf sFs as ss
rosd w,hSa. mercy Gy this MI .cn, Tnc%n-
Which in inat Part Q; IroIrna rGor"son1.
@ taSohism. ism These three men M aci"i as. hey
Ss a Tang ~ T as ahsaps ns ,i nm
carais. Corn asntsr and reiormer soon
graprlcd with the Arran Island triumyirete,
sni FaSar caTe al H"a tho 5
used in tho islands had to bc brought from Gal.
rse sns ls c to hs nsd nsy
hunt bakery and put a Bible render named
was in working order the Islanders wers or.
dared to deal there aud ther. exclusively
1t should be borne in nilnd that mono of these
island worked for tho land agent. excepting
n the payers OF rack rents. and he had no
rn ess W9ud fave ne hd to dictate "tt to n" na
Father C9rbe'. like Rlehelieu, intnrnoseh tl,p
this iniamou, mandate OF the temporal power
r.sponded with an c4nal iml4ronsnc,ss oi re-
stitution," continued Father Corbrt ana mo-
hihted ,he nrSenrle from bny,ng % the bread Inn
that no bread should be carried by ans bont m
Arran from Hn,way so TN, tho people might
Be il borne IN m,li thai thip tsent did not
own these boats and Ind no lawful authori
over the bOutmen.
But. continued Father Corbot. " tho boat
mon ,obcyed. because they knew that If they
dared to refuse ,n"y w3uld gst & ,n1,ices e
holdings that ii had taken years to make nt 10
live on. ! exnosed the tyranny OF the three
the fight went on--ttom November iii the end
Of January lsSl and not II single loaf OF
single, ,lonf bought By the Catholics from tho
island bakery They could not stnrvc We out.
FINALLY 10y memorialzing the Lord Lieutenant.
the i1lnhuS wrr" declared IN u STATE Of siege u
GgurnS GgannS|n, rS WnS cent dGwn IN nvestiGaton or
, ahis ,is was rrolmbly the tlr't instance. for
said when b" went there generations OF abso-
a lnip dsrendne" on the hind ords for z foo, OF
Hn %"r. afraid Of ,hsr own shadows, sH 70 sncat
~ sInmId sm1,t impossible to make them
Dr. Oke !iIy writes about the iodine tax on
the Arran ran isnnds ln The west. al! along tho
then. often as with Lord Sliro's estates-the
shore. from high water to low water mark. IL
divided into plats and ronted out. in order 10
a: secure the value Of the crop Of senw"ed 70 tie
Heating soaweed that is washed ashore. aud
whatever wrecks or timber or lumber may Ee
property Of the Unsuitable lnndords. kolp t. u
H, H.nh Of =, s. s,awesd witch is dried nnd burned in
Thompson" writes the Doctor. Is one Of
those men who, il place,i in charge of an old
mems old Jones IS and and Il H. Ks n
shrouds and collins In lSts he opened in Gal
material out Of which ioiiue is cxiract,d I'd va 4
sc, ten ilrm who followed th" same business,
tue the ,sandsrs ISL $35 ton i3r .l koln Mr. T.omn-
s%n Gf tHni tna ia s Th rom +" h% Mnh
made Is Hs nuch the property OF the landlord
as as + the land itself Tho hrInn .ioik drmurrci
tic. to quit" ~" "00
~, Ihis is he lnst phase of war that was wag-
GoIbet spoke OF it, and now i"r thc list time.
de"inher my notes OF the conversation:
1hs po 0 Hi. .'s"H'1 sn fhoy %, 'n"fs
ohlised 10 sell TO the. agent n, his own prir".
I'm ,.,., less inan he current nYrke price aud in
in1ha'11m iha ,s.r 70 ha.ng & 10 sell eSeusvely 70 h
hmndrcdwrigh's for every ton. and odd hun
hf"~clgatS rnu, 81 =; 80 %Srp wcisneL UP !" the Of
tho ton Th" % asent n % in ""nrssIts a"niSns siS to
tho magistrate ana minister 'Ii'" and a Ten lew
iIdine .r factory Of ter own in dalway nnI. un.
W'r wn 'is ] pm OF eviction every tenant in Arran
eyen dare to ask "a Price wL"n dcv"red ' and "dd
1.ish ,n Il was not iii tho end of TIVE We months
tmh. an in' price was made known to him. Then
no was told that he had got allowance IT, ma
t,,u amount In his rent" Father Corb"t lnurnt
snts monopoly and broko tho Ring; but Il
s"cn5 10 have been ro Established in ,ctrli,
Ion lniEe for having dared to appeal To- the
hhapu I'M 'oults TO hare tinir rents reduced which
her not been done for thirty years
,,I ms Mr. Thompson often used TO order all
~ .ne isianders 10 work ut making roads witlou,
sMtPs them q meal or y shilling.
VII lust toll You ono thing more" con.
III tWuuem h rather gnrb.t. " to give You an idrn II
we ADlect condition Of these moor rs,nl. al
,ha, ,ha t;m" They held one fair In the yonr. Ht
Sat ialr mo magistrate went from beast 10
3nsast ana marked out those that sui,ct t. IN,
nnI anI9y were immediately driven home to I'm.
anu ,,ane some days occasionally some mont
a!.arward he gave tho owners ,ust wtnt
price price he pleased for them. and they ths d"r'd dMd
Wot w.n, grumolni In fact" Father Corh"t
zones m, tho diaboiica swndiing prn"tiseI
un uron me Arian neop!o OF those days seems Tow
would be disinc!inod To- cr,iit liam 'fM fHnr ~