Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Currency symbols were italicized in the original book. To make the Plain Text version of this eBook easier to read, those symbols are not marked as italics, but are displayed here as “ℓ.”, “s.”, and “d.” (without quotation marks). Footnote 3, originally on page 5: The day of the month was missing. Footnote 64, originally on page 178: “M‘Culloch’s” was printed that way, with the right-curling apostrophe. Page 186: “controul” was printed that way. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Crisis, by C. E. Trevelyan