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From: "QuestionQuigley" <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 22:10:58 -0400
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Their first mistake was to consider us "unfortunate sons and nephews."

"Dennis Ahern" wrote in message news:iphfmm$jqu$1@pcls6.std.com...


>From The Mercury [Hobart, Tasmania], 22 November 1865 -

IRISH LAWLESSNESS.
(From The Times August 23rd.)

Every Englishman who has reached middle age knows what it is to
have a son, a brother, a nephew, or a cousin who is the drop of bitter
in his cup, the thorn in his side, the fly in his ointment. It is not
necessary that the graceless relative should be irreclaimably bad. He
is, perhaps, simply improvident and reckless, impulsive in action and
hasty in speech ; generous--with other people's money ; warm-hearted,
if fickle, in love as in hate. Unstable as water, he is by turns
sanguine and despondent, but whatever else may be doubtful about
him, it is certain that at short intervals he will be thrown back upon
his friends for assistance out of some scrape or help in some sore
necessity. Acknowledging no obligation to provide for the future, he
is continually in distress how to meet the necessities of the present,
and, ignoring. the existence of law, he is constantly reminded of it by
incurring its penalties. The most remarkable part of his case,
however, is that his sober friends, who are outraged by his
lawlessness and have to pay for his extravagance, bear no malice
against him, and at times feel a kind of pride in befriending a
creature who has emancipated himself from all the burdens of duty.

Ireland stands in the same relation to Englishmen ; collectively that

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Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
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