IAPTEK II. 



\ILURE IN IRELAND, (6) ECONOMl 



DURING the colonization period it was one of 

 principal objects to win Ireland over 



ism. A glance at statistics sh< 

 how unsuccessful this attempt was popu- 



lation of Ireland t< mounts to 4,458,775. Of 



!, 1 50, 1 14 belong to the various non-Roman- 

 Episcopalian Protestant 



Church, ti byterians, the Methodists, &c. 



3,308,661 are Roman Catholics, that is a propor- 



n of 74 cent. Since the middle of the 



I century the proportion between Roman 



.holies and all others has altered somewhat in 



of the latter. The Roman Catholics 



numbered 



1 86 1 77*69 per cent. 



765 

 1901 74- ji 



of the population. This slow reduction has not 



; any increase of the other religions; 



it has rather resulted from the still larger reduc- 



of Roman Catholics, not, however, by con- 



>ions but by emigration. The hope that 



considerable proportion of the Irish population 



