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exists between them and the farmers of Easter 

 and Wester Ross, is entirely attributable to the 

 tenant-right system of the former being different 

 from and inferior to that of the latter, as to 

 say that the condition of the peasantry of 

 Tipperary, and the difference between them and 

 the peasantry of Armagh, is owing to the want 

 of the influence of the Ulster tenant-right 

 system in the former which is in operation in 

 the latter. Confining our remarks, for the 

 sake of brevity, to Ireland, the difference 

 between the tenant-right system of Tipperary 

 and that of Armagh is conventional, not legal. 

 No act of parliament was ever passed by the 

 British legislature conferring such a privilege 

 upon the one county and denying it to the 

 other. It would be absurd and ridiculous to 

 entertain the idea of an Irish parliament having 

 done so. If the farmers of the north had 

 power at any previous period to introduce a 

 system favourable for themselves, so have the 

 farmers of the south and west at present. 



The tenant-right system of Ulster is compa- 

 ratively of recent origin. It was not the 

 primitive system of the Celtic communities 

 during the patriarchal ages. It was not even 



