It had developed very rapidly, and in 1800 gave promise of supplanting linen.

But the weight of capital told more and more as changes in the technique of transportation and production ushered in our modern world.

Lacking the solid reserves of its rival, involved in all the exactions that fall on a tributary nation, the cotton manufacture of Ireland lost ground, lost heart, and disappeared.
But let us resume the parable.

If the "business man" responds to capital, he will certainly not be obtuse to the appeal of coal.

In this feeder of industry Ireland was geologically at a disadvantage, and it was promised that the free trade with Great Britain inaugurated by the Union would "blend" with her the resources of the latter country.