The Author was already engaged in the not over-congenial task of putting his own French into English, or what he hoped might do duty as such, when Messrs. George Routledge & Sons, the London publishers of his _Public Life in England_, kindly proposed to introduce _Ireland’s Disease_ to British society. The offer was heartily accepted, and so it came to pass that the English version is to appear in book form on the same day as the French one. The special conditions of the case made it, of course, a duty to the author to strictly retain in his text every line that he had written down in the first instance, however little palatable it might prove to some English readers and fatal to his own literary or other prospects in England. That should be his excuse for sticking desperately to words which, like Tauchnitz editions, were not originally intended for circulation in Great Britain. PH. D. PARIS, _Nov. 10th, 1887_. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I. FIRST SENSATIONS 5 CHAPTER II. DUBLIN LIFE 17 CHAPTER III. THE POOR OF DUBLIN 31 CHAPTER IV. THE EMERALD ISLE 46 CHAPTER V. THE RACE 60 CHAPTER VI. HISTORICAL GRIEVANCES 76 CHAPTER VII. KILLARNEY 96 CHAPTER VIII. THROUGH KERRY ON HORSEBACK 109 CHAPTER IX. A KERRY FARMER’S BUDGET 139 CHAPTER X. RURAL PHYSIOLOGY 157 CHAPTER XI. EMIGRATION 177 CHAPTER XII. THE LEAGUE 197 CHAPTER XIII. THE CLERGY 215 CHAPTER XIV. FORT SAUNDERS 234 CHAPTER XV. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN 256 CHAPTER XVI. SCOTTISH IRELAND 271 CHAPTER XVII. LEX LICINIA 296 I.—The Gladstone Scheme 309 II.—An Outsider’s Suggestion 313 APPENDIX 331 IRELAND’S DISEASE. INTRODUCTION.