Ireland Under Coercion (2nd Ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

From preface to the second edition: Upon one most important point--the progressive demoralization of the Irish people by the methods of the so-called political combinations, which are doing the work of the Agrarian and Anti-Social Revolution in Ireland, some passages, from a remarkable sermon delivered in August in the Cathedral of Waterford by the Catholic bishop of that diocese, will be found to echo almost to the letter the statement given to me in June by a strong Protestant Home Ruler, that