Bacon Curing:-- Denmark, 131, 194 Bagot, Canon:-- Creamery movement, 189 Balfour, Arthur:--168 Irish policy, 243, 244 Balfour, Gerald:--243, 256 Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 225, 233 Local Government Act, 224, 238, 240 Policy of explained, 225 Recess Committee Proposals; Bill, 224 Banks, agricultural credit, 195 _seq._ Barley Experiments of the Department of Agriculture, 282 Belfast Chamber of Commerce and Home Rule, 67 Berkeley, Bishop:-- Irish priests, 141 On "Mending our state," 6 "Parties" and "politics," 63 Bessborough Commission, tenants improvements, &c. 22 Board of National Education, 126 Board of Technical Instruction, 228, 234 _seq_. 257 Bodley's _France_, Madame Darmesteter's review, 242 Boer war and the Irish attitude, 9 Bogs, utilisation of, 249 Boycotting, 87 Bright, John:-- Peasant proprietorship, 25 Brooke, Stopford, 92 Buckle, personal factor in history, 27 Bulwer Lytton, 34 Burke, 137 Butt, Isaac, 78 Butter, Danish, 131 Cadogan, Lord, 224 Catholic Association, 99 Catholic Emancipation Act, 104, 125, 132 Catholic University (see University Question). Celtic Race, Harold Frederic's opinion, 161 _seq_. Character:-- Associative qualities of the Irish, 166 Education and character, 144 Gaelic Revival, effect of on national character, 148, 155 Industrial character, 18 Irish inefficiency a problem of character, 32 Irish question a problem of character, 32, 59, 164 Lack of initiative in Irish character, 163 Moral timidity of Irish character, 64, 65, 80, 81 Prosperity of Ireland, to be founded on character, 291 Roman Catholicism and Irish character, 101-105, 110 Chesterfield, Lord:-- Education as the cause of difference in the character of men, 144 Christian Brothers' Schools, 131 Christian Socialists, 184 Church-building in Ireland,. 107 Church Disestablishment Act, 1869,--Land Purchase Clauses, 25 Clan-System in Ireland, 75 Clergy, Roman Catholic:-- Action and attitude towards questions of the day 105 Authority, 96, 105 _seq_. Moral influence, 115, 116 Political influence, 117 Temperance reform, 112, 114 College of Science and Department of Agriculture, 229 Colonies, history of the Irish in, 72 _seq_. Commercial Restrictions--effect of on Irish industrial character, 17 _seq_. Con O'Neal forbids his posterity to build houses, etc., 57 Congested Districts Board:-- Agricultural banks, loans to 197 Department of Agriculture and, 245 Land Act (1903) and, 245 Success of, 243, 244 Convents and Monasteries, increase of, 108 Co-operative Movement:-- Agricultural Banks, 195 _seq_. Agricultural depression, cause of, 179 Altruism, appeal to, 210 Anderson, R.A., 184, 190, 200 Associative qualities of Irish, 166, 178, 186 Beginnings, 178 Combination, necessity of, 181 Co-operative Union, Manchester, 184 Craig, Mr. E.T., and the Vandeleur Estate, 184 Creameries, 187 _seq_. Denmark, 131, 194 Educating adults, 177