Produced by Brian Foley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Present Irish Questions Publisher's Announcement _By the Same Author_ The Campaign of 1815: Ligny, Quatre Bras, Waterloo. Demy 8vo, cloth, with Maps, 12_s._ 6_d._ net. M. Houssaye, in a letter to the author, says, "J'ai lu avec beaucoup de plaisir votre livre sur La Campagna de 1815. C'est un excellent resume, copieux et critique, tres judicieux, tres precis, et tres clair." Captain Mahan, in a letter to the author, says, "Your narrative is very clear, and to me quite convincing." _The Times_: "We can recommend this book as a painstaking and instructive survey of the campaign." _The Spectator_: "Provides what has long been wanted--a study of the campaign by one well qualified to sift evidence dispassionately." _Pall Mail Gazette_: "Will fill a high place in the all too scanty library of British Military literature." LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Present Irish Questions BY WILLIAM O'CONNOR MORRIS COUNTY COURT JUDGE AND CHAIRMAN OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF ROSCOMMON AND SLIGO, AND SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD [Greek: Nosei de moi propas stolos, oud' eni phrontidos egchos ho tis alexetai.]--SOPHOCLES. 'Blessed is the Amending Hand.'--_Old Proverb._ London Grant Richards New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1901 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK A TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, K.P. THE MOST DISTINGUISHED IRISHMAN OF HIS TIME LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. Preface