The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-03-12
THI STORY OF IRELAND.
Century After Century Of English
Tyranny.
Ireland Can Never be Free Until
Religious Prejudice II
swept Aside.

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every other nation, less favored in many
respects by nature, is striding forward on
the highway Of political and material pro-
gTess? Must We not conclude that the
real cause lies in the English tyrannical
laws and their administration by which
that unfortunate country has been gov
erned for so many centuries?
Isolated from Europe, the Irish have
spent on their island home q wealth Of
and heroism that has evoked the
wonder Of the world. For them the
emerald gem never lost its luster, and its
ocean setting was source Of never end
ing joy. Though the angel Of liberty took
wing from the soil Of Erin seven centuries
ago the Irish have since kept the lamp Of
freedom burning. Stricken down to the
earth, they have always risen, century
after century with fresh strength for the
combat, and from the death throes Of each
expiring generation another was born
aHame with the quenchless love OF liberty
and Of country. This love was the spring
Of truceless war with England.
The form Of government in Ireland at
the time Of its invasion BY the English
1859, was monarchical, each Of the pro
vincial kings acknowledging obedience to
the Ard-Righ, then Ruaridh OConnor,
king Of Connaught. The people then en-
ioyed Arcadian happiness; they were
social to one another, hospitable to stranR-
ers and faithful to God.
They could not then brook breach oil
the marriage laws even in q king. This
king, Diarmid marlborough, had to ny
from his country, exiled by the moral
sentiment Of his own kith and kin; and
it was to reinstate that adulterous mon
arch on his throne that the cursed saxon
first polluted the soil Of Ireland. A king
by whose infamous orders q saint was
slain, but one short year before, at the
foot Of the altar in Canterbury came 70
Ireland in the name Of religion to stihe
its first precepts, in the name Of peace TO
let slip the sleuth-hounds Of war, and In
the livery Of heaven to do the work oil
hell. And here would remark that both
countries were then purely Catholic, as
there was no other Christian church In
existence. But kings and aduiterers care
very little about churches.
Henry II. found Ireland rich in hocks
and herds, with fertile soil and abund-
ance Of gold. At the outset he protessed
the kindliest feelings for the people, and
simply claimed superiority over them.
Soon, however, he threw of the mask.
Strongbow, who married Eva, daughter
Of Marlborough, claimed Lenster as his
share Of the spoil. Ulster was assigned
to De Courcy, Connaught to De Burgh,
and the larger part Of Munster to Fitz-
stephen and De Cogan. The remainder
Of Ireland was subdivided among the
kings principal barons and knights who
had accompanied him to that country.
It need hardly be said that such q trans
fer was in conflict with every law, human
and divine. 1t was in direct defiance Of
the Brehon law.
Before that time the English were in
the habit Of selling their children and
relatives as slaves to the Irish, and all In
America know from experience that the
most intense love of liberty may be
nourished side by side with the existence
Of slavery.
The bishops and priests abolished slav-
cry before King John landed in lrelandin
1910 to war against the Irish.
An Irish contingent fought under Bruce
ct Bannockburn. Soon after it was de-
to invite Edward Bruce, brother
Of the conqueror, TO the throne Of Ireland.
After several battles he was duly inaugu-
rated and recognized as king near Dun
dalk, 1916. In the end he was defeated
and slain.
In 1850, Lionel, son Of Edward H.,
came TO represent his wife, and in right
Of his wife, q Lady de Burgh, to lay claim
TO Connaught. In 1867 he, after several
battles, summoned a parliament at Kill
kenny, and that body began the first Of
series Of most odious laws. Trading with
The Irish, the use Of Irish names, apparel
Or language was punished as treason.
Richard H., In all the pomp and sur
roundings Of war, landed in Ireland in
lS49. His dreams OF triumphant pro-