He quoted emigration statistics showing the number of girls who left Mayo every year for the United States.

He pointed out that all of them might be employed at home, as milliners or otherwise, if only the public would boycott shops which sold English goods or employed Scotch milliners.
He more than suspected that the obnoxious advertisement was part of an organized attempt to effect a new plantation of Connaught--'worse than Cromwell's was.' The fact that Connaught was the only part of Ireland which Cromwell did not propose to plant escaped the notice of both Mr.Dowling and his audience.

The speech concluded with a passionate peroration and a verse, no doubt declaimed soundingly, of 'The West's Awake.' Hyacinth made an expedition to Ardnaree, and called hopefully on the orator.

His reception was depressing in the extreme.

The shop, which was large and imposing, was stocked with goods which were obviously English, and Mr.Dowling curtly refused even to look at the samples of Mr.
Quinn's manufactures.