It has not been greatly concerned about Ireland or Ireland's welfare, but has been consistently anxious to preserve its own privileges, powers, and property.

It has not come well out of the struggle of the nineteenth century.

Its Church has been disestablished, its privileges and powers abolished, and the last remnants of its property are being filched from it.

It is a curious piece of irony that this party should have hastened its own defeat by the very policy adopted to secure victory.

No doubt the Irish aristocracy would have suffered less if they had been seditious instead of loyal.