Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...went to Cambridge University, where he spent seven years. After that he lived in nothern England, where he fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish...
...most serious difficulty in the way of our reading, or speaking really well, is the fact that we are Anglo-Saxons, or rather, perhaps, Americans. In England there is a standard to which almost every one subscribes. In Scotland and Ireland this is less so, while in America there is almost an entire absence of such a standard, while France, through her Academies, is ahead of all other nations in this particular. If we are so behind, what better place is there to perfect our language and to set a standard than here at our University, where so many opportunities...
...Blake, in speaking of the Irish question, said that any reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain must be based on an acknowledgement of errors in the past. The Irish are now struggling for a federal government. Federalism has enabled statesmen to create out of conflicting elements, a nation with a central government to deal with common concerns, while under it each little state manages its own local affairs...
Isaac Butt, in 1870, originally started the movement, suggesting a means of reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain, which now seems about to approach a happy consummation. His movement even then was supported by the protestants and conservatives of Ireland. In the great meeting at Dublin they said that they wished no separation from England, but they would not have their domestic affairs regulated by an English parliament. The views propounded by the meeting rapidly spread. The extremists fell in with the movement, and had it been led with sternness then, things might have been far cifferent than at present...
...whole difficulty would seem to settle itself, if the present occupant of land could be made its proprietor. All of Ireland would be relieved, prosperity would begin, and there would slowly be brought about a restoration of a feeling of friendship between Ireland and Great Britain...