He was a man of unblemished character, and in a position where he could not afford to talk nonsense.

Yet, if Froude were right, nonsense he must have talked.
Cornwallis, an Englishman, corroborates Foster; Cornwallis is disregarded.

"All that was best and noblest in Ireland" was gathered into the Orange Association, which has been the plague of every Irish Government since the Union.

Froude's model sovereign of Ireland, as of England, was George III., who ordered that in a Catholic country "a sharp eye should be kept on Papists," and would doubtless have joined an Orange Lodge himself if he had been an Irishman and a subject.

The English in Ireland is reported to have been Parnell's favourite book.