OBRIENS OFLAHERTYS 4VL (Ireland, from the Act of Union, 1800, to the death of Parnell, 1891) [Facsimile] [Hardcover]

Morgan (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0824034589 | ISBN-13: 978-0824034580 | Publication Date: August 1, 1979 | Edition: Facsimile of 1827 ed

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Ireland in literature Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Letter III. A Mons. le General Comte O'Fflakerty, i son Hotel, rue de I' Universite, F. St. G. a Paris. Mon Cher General, Et Beau Cousin, I thought to have dated my first Irish letter from " wretched Dublin, in miserable Ireland," to use a phrase of Swift's, as applicable now as when it was first employed. Many causes, however, have urged my immediate departure from the capital. My poor brethren of the Augus- tinian Friary, in St. John's-street (consisting only of the old prior and two regulars), where I intended to lodge, en cheminjuisant, had been obliged to fly from the new persecution against all the regulars in Ireland. My friends and travelling companions, also, the Lord and Lady Clandillon, who, after their long exile, were returning to purchase estates and settle in the land of their fathers, have stopped short in London; where letters met them with an account of the prevalent intolerance both of the laws and system of government, and of the disturbances in the south. So they mean to return once more to the continent, and with sad hearts to resume their foreign habits, and breath their last in a distant clime. Thus it is that Ireland is deprived of its capitalists. Many families who have acquired large fortunes on the continent, and in India, and who were disposed to bring back to their native country their wealth, their enlarged views, and in...

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1356 pages
• Publisher: Dissertations-G; Facsimile of 1827 ed edition (August 1, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824034589
• ISBN-13: 978-0824034580
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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