MODERN IRELAND AND HER 

 AGRARIAN PROBLEM. 



FART I -THE IRELAND OF TO-DAY. 



CHAPTER I. 



England's failure in Ireland, {a) political. 



Seven hundred and thirty-six years have passed 

 to-day^ since the commencement of England's 

 colonising activity in Ireland. Whilst the 

 English colonization policy has, on the whole, 

 been successful in every quarter of the globe, 

 every reader of the newspapers is aware that, 

 even at the present day, Ireland is not content 

 with its results. With the exception of the 

 north-eastern portion of Ulster, Ireland has not 

 yet reconciled itself to English rule. Ulster 

 is essentially a colonial settlement. If we 

 assume, as in a certain sense is justifiable, that 

 the colonist population belongs to the Pro- 

 testant religion and the native population to the 

 Catholic, we find in Ulster a slight predomi- 

 nance of Protestantism and consequently of the 

 colonist element, since there are only 442 

 Catholics to every 1,000 inhabitants in that 



'- [The standpoint in time of this work may be taken as the 

 year 1905, for though a portion of it appeared at an earlier 

 period, the statistics have, where necessary, been brought up 

 to date in the notes. Trans/.] 



