Baron Kinsale, created 1223. Lord Dunsany, created 1439. Lord Timlestown, created 1461. Viscount Gormanston, created 1478. Baron Louth, created 1541. Lord Dumboine, created 1541. Baron Inchiquin, created 1543. Viscount Montgarrett, created 1550. The Earl of Fingal, created 1620. Viscount Grandison, created 1620. Earl of Cork, created 1620. Baron Digby, created 1620. Earl of Westmeath, created 1621. Earl of Desmond, created 1622. Lord Dillon, created 1622. Viscount Valentia, created 1622. Earl of Meath, created 1627. Baron Sherard, created 1627. Viscount Lumley, created 1628. Viscount Taffe, created 1628. All the remaining peerages of Ireland were created later than the year 1700. The people as a rule are respectful towards the nobility, and treat them with a consideration which is not always deserved. The bitterness of politics is more intense in Ireland than in any other country, and, as Sydney Brooks in his recent book on "Ireland in the Twentieth Century" says, "Class distinctions are not mitigated by political agreement. Differences of creed are not assuaged by harmony of economic interests. The cleavages of racial temperament are not, as in other countries, bridged over by a sense of national unity. On the contrary, all the bitterness of caste and creed, of political and material antipathies and contrast, instead of losing half their viciousness in a multiplicity of cross-currents, are gathered and rigidly compressed in Ireland into two incongruous channels. Throughout the country you can infer a man's religion from his social position; his social position from his religion, and his views on all Irish questions from both; and nine times out of ten you infer rightly." That is strictly true. Nowhere in the world is a man's politics so influenced by his religion and his social position as in Ireland. Although you will find home rulers in all classes of the English population, you will never find them outside one class in Ireland. If you are told what business he is engaged in or what church he belongs to in Ireland, it is not necessary for you to ask his politics.