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An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

PREFACE
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Thus, with each succeeding generation, the feeling of hatred towards the English was intensified with each new act of injustice, and such acts were part of the normal rule of the invaders.

A lord deputy was sent after a time to rule the country.

Perhaps a more unfortunate form of government could not have been selected for Ireland.

The lord deputy knew that he was subject to recall at any moment; he had neither a personal nor a hereditary interest in the country.

He came to make his fortune there, or to increase it.


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