An Irishman's StoryMacmillan, 1904 - 435 sider |
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Side 73 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Side 338 - I speak of would not only place many hearty and effective friends of the Irish cause in a position of great embarrassment, but would render my retention of the leadership of the liberal party, based as it has been mainly upon the prosecution of the Irish cause, almost a nullity. This explanation of my views I begged Mr. McCarthy to regard as confidential, and not intended for his colleagues generally, if he found that Mr. Parnell contemplated spontaneous action ; but I also begged that he would make...
Side 8 - ... Lyttelton into the Government as President of the Board of Trade in October 1940. I had known him from his childhood. His father, Alfred Lyttelton, had been Mr. Balfour's Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1904, and had before the Home Rule split been a youthful private secretary to Mr. Gladstone. He was for many years a distinguished member of the House of Commons. His son was thus brought up in a political atmosphere. He served in the Grenadiers through the hardest fighting of the First...
Side 338 - Irish cause in a position of great embarrassment, but would render my retention of the leadership of the Liberal party — based, as it has been, mainly upon the prosecution of the Irish cause — almost a nullity.
Side 337 - I thought it necessary, viewing the arrangement for the commencement of the Session to-morrow, to acquaint Mr. McCarthy with the conclusion at which, after using all the means of observation and reflection in my power, I had myself arrived. It was that notwithstanding the splendid services rendered by Mr. Parnell to his country, his continuance at the present moment in the leadership would be productive of consequences disastrous in the highest degree to the cause of Ireland.
Side 338 - It was that notwithstanding the splendid services rendered by Mr. Parnell to his country, his continuance at the present moment in the leadership would be productive of consequences disastrous in the highest degree to the cause of Ireland. I think I may be warranted in asking you so far to expand the conclusion I have given above, as to add that the continuance I speak of would not only place many hearty and effective friends of the Irish cause in a position of great embarrassment, but would render...
Side 337 - While clinging to the hope of a communication from Mr. Parnell, to whomsoever addressed, I thought it necessary, viewing the arrangements for the commencement of the session to-morrow, to acquaint Mr. McCarthy with the conclusion at which, after using all the means of observation and reflection in my power, I had myself arrived. It was that notwithstanding the splendid services rendered by Mr. Parnell to his country, his...
Side 301 - ... simply a Scottish night with a brogue. Obstruction forced the Irish question on the attention of the English people. Just before the Parnell divorce suit came to shatter so many things, McCarthy had come to believe that the main trouble was over, and that, in his own words, " an Irish Nationalist member was henceforward to be a welcome associate in the great progressive work of English politics.
Side 11 - ... post of clerk to the Cork City magistrates, came down in the world — was chiefly engaged with marbles and whip-top. " We were nearly all poor," he says of his school set, " but we all belonged to families in which education counted for much, and where scholarly studies found encouragement. . . . We could read our Latin and make something of our Greek, most of us could read French, some few Italian, and many of us were taking to the study of German.
Side 288 - Sunday when the news of the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in the Phrenix Park, Dublin, reached London how Parnell and I went at once to call on Mr.