Only half the population had perished; there were still alive, according to the most probable estimate, quite two hundred thousand Irishmen.

The next generation helps to illustrate not only the indestructibility of Ireland, but her all but miraculous power of recuperation.

So abundant are the resources of his own vitality that, as Dr Moritz Bonn declares, an Irish peasant can live where a continental goat would starve.

And not having read Malthus--Mr Malthus at that time being even less readable than since--the Irish remnant proceeded to develop anew into a nation.

In forty years it was marching behind that _beau chevalier_ Owen Roe O'Neill to battle and victory.