Category: History - Other

Present Irish Questions

Ireland has passed through a revolution in the Victorian age--Material progress--Dublin--Belfast--Improvement in Catholic places of worship and in the habitations of the people--State of the Irish community--Symptoms of retrogression--Decline of agriculture--The progress of Ir...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER IV

State of landed relations in Ireland in 1869-70--Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister--The Land Act of 1870--Its merits and defects--A short period of prosperity in Ireland--Ominous sym...

16. CHAPTER VIII

Irish county government--The grand jury system in the eighteenth century--Its merits and defects--The grand jury system in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1836--The...

24. PART II.--REGULATIONS AS TO GRATUITIES AND PENSIONS FOR THE ROYAL IRISH

(1) There shall be a separate register of electors of councillors of the Legislative Council which shall be made, until otherwise provided by Irish Act, in like manner as the Pa...

11. CHAPTER III

Great importance in the history of Ireland of the conditions of land tenure--The ancient Celtic land system and its characteristics--The Norman conquest of Ireland--Norman feuda...

10. CHAPTER II

The question of Home Rule not extinct--The reasons--Butt's scheme of Home Rule--It is denounced and ridiculed by Mr. Gladstone, and defeated in the House of Commons--Death of Bu...

13. CHAPTER V

The administration of the Land Act of 1870 in the main good--Difficulty about claims for tenants' improvements--The administration of the Land Act of 1881, and of its supplement...

14. CHAPTER VI

Retrospect of the present Irish land system--Position of the Irish landlords--Position of the Irish tenant class--This not as advantageous as might be supposed--The effects of t...

15. CHAPTER VII

The subject briefly considered--Financial position of Ireland before 1782, and under Grattan's Parliament--Her taxation and debt small before 1798--Ireland financially a distinc...

9. CHAPTER I

Ireland has passed through a revolution in the Victorian age--Material progress--Dublin--Belfast--Improvement in Catholic places of worship and in the habitations of the people-...

22. PART I.

=1.= On and after the appointed day there shall be in Ireland a Legislature consisting of Her Majesty the Queen and of two Houses, the Legislative Council and the Legislative As...

19. PART I.

=2.= With the exceptions and subject to the restrictions in this Act mentioned, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, by and with the advice of the Irish Legislative Bod...

20. PART II.

(2) The power of taking waste land, and, on making due compensation, any other land for the purpose of erecting such forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, or other buildings as...

25. book x. chs. i., ii., iii.; Graham Balfour's 'The Educational System of

Great Britain and Ireland,' pp. 203-218; and the Reports of the two Commissions of 1854-57 and of 1878-80, of which the heads were Lord Kildare and the Earl of Rosse.

21. PART I.

10. As to separate Consolidated Fund and taxes. 11. Hereditary revenues and income tax. 12. Financial arrangements as between United Kingdom and Ireland. 13. Treasury Account (I...

23. PART I.--REGULATIONS AS TO ESTABLISHMENT OF POLICE FORCES AND AS TO

(2) Whenever the Executive Committee of the Privy Council in Ireland certify to the Lord-Lieutenant that a police force, adequate for local purposes, has been established in any...

4. CHAPTER IV

THE QUESTION OF THE IRISH LAND (_continued_)--THE IRISH LAND ACT OF 1870--THE LAND LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL LEAGUE--THE LAND ACT OF 1881--SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION AS REGARDS THE LA...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Irish county government--The grand jury system in the eighteenth century--Its merits and defects--The grand jury system in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1836--The...

3. CHAPTER III

Great importance in the history of Ireland of the conditions of land tenure--The ancient Celtic land system and its characteristics--The Norman conquest of Ireland--Norman feuda...

18. PART II.

27. Judges to be removable only on address. 28. Provisions as to Judges and other persons having salaries charged on the Consolidated Fund. 29. As to persons holding Civil Servi...

7. CHAPTER VII

The subject briefly considered--Financial position of Ireland before 1782, and under Grattan's Parliament--Her taxation and debt small before 1798--Ireland financially a distinc...

5. CHAPTER V

The administration of the Land Act of 1870 in the main good--Difficulty about claims for tenants' improvements--The administration of the Land Act of 1881, and of its supplement...

6. CHAPTER VI

Retrospect of the present Irish land system--Position of the Irish landlords--Position of the Irish tenant class--This not as advantageous as might be supposed--The effects of t...

1. CHAPTER I

Ireland has passed through a revolution in the Victorian age--Material progress--Dublin--Belfast--Improvement in Catholic places of worship and in the habitations of the people-...

2. CHAPTER II

The question of Home Rule not extinct--The reasons--Butt's scheme of Home Rule--It is denounced and ridiculed by Mr. Gladstone, and defeated in the House of Commons--Death of Bu...

17. Part I.

1. Establishment of Irish Legislature. 2. Powers of Irish Legislature. 3. Exceptions from powers of Irish Legislature. 4. Restrictions on powers of Irish Legislature. 5. Preroga...