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IN
CONNEMAR A.
BY
SIR DIGBY NEAVE, BART.
Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas,
Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
JUVEN. Sat. i. 85.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1852.
Printed by SAMUEL BENTLEY and Co.
Bangor House, Shoe Lane,
CONTENTS.
PREFATORY DEDICATION
CHAPTER I.
Visit to Maynooth.-Bog of Allen.-Election War-
fare.-Effects of Evictions. - Present and Prospective
Condition of Ireland
CHAPTER II.
Expectation of Transatlantic Traffic.-Sale of Encum-
bered Estates.-Reflections on Famine.-Irish Repartee.
Clifden Workhouse and Church. - English Settle-
ments. - Irish Heath. The Killaries. — Melwrea.
Scenery of Beanabrack
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CHAPTER III.
Maum Turc.-A Cairn.-Bed of St. Patrick.-The
Martin Domain.-Dreary Scenery.-The Bogs.-Suspi-
cious-looking Lough. The Twelve Pins. A Fair
Mountaineer. Frequency of Rain and Rainbows
CHAPTER IV.
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Anecdote of Brydone the Traveller. — Geological
Formations.-Best Route through Western Highlands.
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CHAPTER V.
Endowment of Irish Catholic Clergy.—Conduct of the
Irish Priests.-The Irish Episcopacy.-Southern and
Northern Students.-Burning the Bible.-St. Patrick
and his Saints.-Change in Episcopal Management.
Church Education Society.-Protestant Missions
CHAPTER VI.
Priestly Aversion to Instruction.-Infallibility of the
Pope.-Pasquinades on the Pope.-Policy of Teaching
the Irish Language.-Welsh Language.-Flowers of
Irish Courtesy.-Future of the English Race.-Ameri-
can Homage to Shakspeare.-Shakspearian Idioms.-
American Missions in Koordistan. - Insidiousness of
Vatican Conclave.-Louis Napoleon
'CHAPTER VII.
Protestant Missions.-Forced Conversions.-Priestly
Interference with Women. -Witch-burning.-Protes-
tants of Western Highlands.—Irish Church in the Van
against Popery
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CHAPTER VIII.
The O'Neil Estate.-Lynch-law on Sheep-stealers.-
Starved Crow." A Hard Summer." - Famine Scenes
in India.-Musings on Famine.-Civilization in India.
-Anecdote of Mr. Martin
CHAPTER IX.
Affairs of Honour.-Wellington and Duty.-Character
of Mr. Richard Martin.-Gensdarmerie at a Shipwreck.
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-Louis Napoleon.-Presentation to Pius VII.-Anec-
dote of an Eton Examination
CHAPTER X.
Ballinahinch House.-Enactment for Planting Trees.
-Quarries.-Emigrants.—A Mist.-Beggars.-Improv-
ability of Connemara
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Estates Act.-
New Proprietary. Ulster Escheated
Estates.-Irish Constabulary.-James's proposed Plan-
tation in Connaught.-Mean Conduct of James II.-
Mr. Martin's Act unnecessary.-Advantages of present
Proprietors
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CHAPTER XII.
England's Exertions in favour of Ireland.-Ireland
not over-populous now.. - The Future of Ireland. -
Effects of the Irish Poor Law.-Impotency of Criminal
Law.-Priestly Influence.-Weakness of Laws.-Pre-
ventives of Crime.-Mr. Pitt's Policy
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CHAPTER XIII.
Mr. Bright in Ireland.—Modern Justice to Ireland.—
Political Agitation dying away.-Supply of Clothing,
Glass, and Money-wages, recommended.-List of Griev-
ances abated.-Rent-paying Animals.-Hints for a Go-
vernment Settlement.-Relations between Landlord and
Tenant
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