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INDEX. 



Dairying, co-operative, etc., 39. 

 Davitt, Michael, 77, 79, 118. " 

 Death statistics of Ireland, 17. 

 Deficit farms, Pt. I., ch. vi., passim. 

 De Freyne estate, 1 19. 

 Department of Agriculture, 129. 

 Devolution, 163. 

 Devon Commission, 66. 

 Devoy, John, 77. 

 Dillon estate, 64, 119, 154. 

 Distillery industiy, 29. 

 Donegal, 48, 55. 

 Dual ownership, 64, 83. 

 Dudley, Lord (Viceroy), 134. 

 Dunfanaghy, 48, 155. 

 Dunraven, Lord, 163 n. 



H. M. Edward VIL, 123, 134. 

 'Eleven months system,' 41, 90, 



91. 

 Emigration from Ireland, 16, 17, 



158, 159- 

 Encumbered Estates Court, 60. 

 English Boards in Ireland, 10. 

 Englished-managed estates, 67. 

 Enlargement of holdings, 47, 154-6. 

 Estates Commissioners, 136. 

 Evictions, 71, 76, 81, 89, 116. 



Fair rent, 82, 106. 



Farmers in Ireland, defective meth- 

 ods among, 38, 58 ; low standard 

 of living, 23, 160 (see 'Agricul- 

 ture' and 'Peasant Proprietors.' 



Farms in Ireland, varieties of, 35-43; 

 size of, 44 sqq. ; household farms, 

 43 ; consolidation of, 47 ; valua- 

 tion, 48 ; un-economic below 

 /15, 49 ; deficit farms, 55, 56 ; 

 sub-division of, 57 ; equipment 

 of farms, how provided, 63 ; 

 modes of tenure, 66 sqq. ; want 

 of capital for, 159. 



Fenianism in Ireland, 73, 78, 86. 



Financial Relations Commission, 

 128 n. 



Fisheries, 29, 54. 



Forster, W. E., 80. 



Fry Commission, 106 sqq. 



Gaelic League, 14. 

 George, Henry, 118. 

 Giflfen, Sir R., 19. 

 Gladstone, W. E., 85, 96. 

 Grazing-farms, 36, 38, 39, 40, 83, 



120, 152, 154. 

 Griffith's Valuation, 68. 

 Guinness's Brewery, 29. 

 Gweedore, no. 



Hicks-Beach, M. E., 124. 



Holdings, see 'Farms.' 



Home Rule movement, 77, 96, 122, 



126, 134 ; probable effect of Land 



Acts on, 162 sqq. 

 Homespun weaving, 55. 

 Household farms, 43. 

 Housing conditions in Ireland, 21 



sqq. 



Illegitimacy in Ireland, 18. 



Illiteracy in Ireland, 15. 



Imperialism, meaning of, 15. 



Improvements, tenants', compensa- 

 tion for, 71, 74, 75. 



Incomes in Ireland, 19, 20. 



Intransigeant party, 11, 12. 



Invincibles, the, 81. 



Ireland, not reconciled to England, 

 7,8; but probably not irreconcil- 

 able, 9; how administered, 9, 10; 

 agrarian crimes in, 11, 72, 76, 80; 

 Volunteer system not extended 

 to, 12 ; England's economic fail- 

 ure in, 13 sqq. ; religions in, 13, 

 23 ; language, 14 ; percentage of 

 illiteracy, 15 ; population statis- 

 tics, 16 sqq. ; a poor country, 19 

 sqq. ; housing conditions in, 21, 

 23 ; social life in small towns,' 

 24, 25 ; occupations of the people, 

 26 sqq. ; an agrarian country, 

 31, 57 ; area of, 32; nature of 

 agriculture in, 32 sqq. ; climate, 

 37 ; growth of pasture in, 37 ; 

 tillage ' extensive,' 38 ; classifica- 

 tion of farms, 39 sqq. ; a land 01 

 small farms, 44 sqq. ; recent pros- 

 perity affecting limited class, 47 ; 



