IRISH :\(. 73 



form f< nee 



lri>li who had emigrated to A: 

 m American poll ul which they 



. lie scales agaii 



numerous Iri.sli colonies had sett 

 the ' in manufa< 



of England and formed there a 



igerous In America a national 



moven id sprung up among 



and a Revo- 



lut: rhood M was organised, which 



isurrection in 



land accoi: 1 by the landing of armed 



Many of the Irish had 



a milit lining in the American 



human m;i tor the 



il-force policy seemed to be ready to hand. 



Th as the revolutionaries were named, 



various risings, of which the most 



not an outbreak in the year 1867. 



Like all Irish insurrections in the igth century, 



se ended in a few trifling skirmishes, which, 



ss, were e enough to influence 



lie opinion of England. 1 Thus it be- 



forthe English reformers to br; 

 (1 proposals for the prevention of fr< 

 <js in Ireland. The road of agrar 

 which John Bright desired to travel led 

 to iblishment of a peasant propriety 



Some tentative advance had already been made 



iorlcy*s Gladstone," II.. pp. 281-297. 



