Ebook: Disturbed Ireland: Being the letters written during the winter of 1880-1881 by Bernard H. Becker

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by Bernard H. Becker

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Intro...
Having been most cordially granted permission to republish these
letters in a collected form, it is my duty to mention that my mission
from the _Daily News_ was absolutely unfettered, either by
instructions or introductions. It was thought that an independent and
impartial account of the present condition of the disturbed districts
of Ireland would be best secured by sending thither a writer without
either Irish politics or Irish friends--in short, one who might occupy
the stand-point of the too-often-quoted "intelligent foreigner." Hence
my little book is purely descriptive of the stirring scenes and deeply
interesting people I have met with on my way through the counties of
Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Cork, and Kerry. It is neither a
political treatise, nor a dissertation on the tenure of land, but a
plain record of my experience of a strange phase of national life. I
have simply endeavoured to reflect as accurately as might be the
salient features of a social and economic upheaval, soon I fervently
hope, to pass into the domain of history; and in offering my work to
the public must ask indulgence for the errors of omission and
commission so difficult to avoid while travelling and writing rapidly
in a country which, even to its own people, is a complex problem............