Commissions appointed for considering and administering Irish affairs: (1) the Devon Commission and its Report--the mistake it made as to Irish land tenure, 116; (2) the Childers Commission and its Report on Irish finance, 288-291 (_see_ chapter on the Present Question of Irish Finance, _passim_); (3) the Land Commission appointed to carry out the Land Act of 1881 and its supplements, 166, 190, 191. _See_ Chaps. IV., V., VI., on the Question of the Irish Land, in many places Confiscations of the Irish Land, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96. _See_ Chap. III., on the Question of the Irish Land, in several places Cork has not prospered within the last sixty years, 2 Cromwell, Irish policy of, especially as to the land, 93, 94 D Davitt, Michael, inaugurates the Irish Land League, 44 Derby, the Administration of Lord, brings in Irish Land Bills in 1852, which do not become law, 123 Dublin, improvements in, within sixty years, 2 E Emancipation, Catholic: its effects on Irish landed relations, 113, 114 Encumbered Estates Act: an iniquitous measure of confiscation, and its results, 121, 122 Exodus, the, of the Irish race after the Famine, 120. _See_ Chap. III., the Question of the Irish Land, in several places F Famine, the Great Irish, of 1845-47, 117, 118, 119; and _see_ Chap. III., on the Irish land, in several places Fenian outbreaks in Ireland, 128, 129; the consequences, 129; the influence of Fenianism in Ireland after 1870, 147