Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: McCarthy's Ireland's Cause in England's Parliament; Bryce's How We Became Home Rulers (in Handbook of Home Rule); Public Opinion Oct. 17 and 24, 1891; McCarthy in Contemporary Review, Nov., 1891; Nation, vol. 41, p. 254, and vol. 53, pp. 289 and 330; Sat. Review, vol. 70, p. 365; North American Review...
...contributed valuable criticisms and suggestions to all of Parliament's Irish legislation: Nation, Oct. 15, '91. - (f) He successfully opposed coercion: Bryce in Handbook of Home Rule, pp. 48 and 53. - (g) His obstructive policy compelled Parliament and the English people to pay attention to Ireland's interests: Handbook of Home Rule...
...Ingolf, who carried with him the pillars of his sect and threw them into the water, declaring that there he should settle his colony. For the next sixty years many colonies were sent out. Certain numbers of the colonists came from Norway, but a good part were from Ireland and Scotland. The first settlers had no boundaries to their lands, but later a man could have as much land as he could carry a fire about in a day, and a woman as much as she could lead a calf about. With a stronger tide of settlement came stronger lights...
...wide variety of subjects, and almost every article is written by a specialist. Of especial interest to college men are "The Sports of an Irish Fair," "Association Football," "A Bout with the Gloves." in "The Sports of an Irish Fair," Robt. F. Walsh puts in a claim for Ireland as the country where base ball had its origin. "Association Foot Ball" is a plea for this particular branch of football. The author thinks that football as played under the association rules ought to become the national winter pastime of boys and men, and predicts that the lovers of the sport...
...Canadian Foot Ball Association will send a team to England this year. Arrangements are being made for games with the best teams in Great Britain and Ireland...