Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XVI
Ireland the Downtrodden
Ancient Ireland--English Domination--Oppression--Patriotic Struggles Against English Rule--Robert Emmet and His Sad Fate--Daniel O'Connell--Grattan, Curran and Other Patriots--The Fenians--Gladstone's Work for Ireland--Parnell, the Irish Leader in Parliament--Ireland of the Present 259