Let him study it at large in Davitt's "Fall of Feudalism." We are not concerned here to revive that calamitous pageant.

Our interest is of another kind, namely to signalise the malign influence introduced into the agrarian struggle by government from Westminster as against government from Dublin.

Even had Grattan's Parliament remained, the battle for the land would have had to go forward; for that Parliament was an assembly controlled by landlords who, for the most part, believed as strongly in the sacredness of rent as they did in the sacredness of nationality.

But by the Union the conflict was embittered and befouled.

The landlords invented their famous doctrine of conditional loyalty.