BY A. M. SULLIVAN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLI YORK THIRD EDITION. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET. 1877. [All rights reserved.] сс PREFATORY. WITHIN considerably less than half a century, changes, social and political, accomplishing a veritable revolution, have taken place in Ireland. In the following pages I have undertaken, not so much to picture them in all their phases, or to write a formal history of the period, as to supply, chiefly from personal observation, a series of sketches or narratives which may perhaps assist in the readier and more correct appreciation of visible results. I have, indeed, been mindful of the fact that these volumes would be published, and, if I may say it, be read, in England; yet I decided not to write them either "for" or "at" the English people, but to tell my story in my own way, and my own point of view. I do not pretend to be dispassionate. I have borne-as will be seen from |