IN

CONNEMAR A.

BY

SIR DIGBY NEAVE, BART.

Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas,

Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.

JUVEN. Sat. i. 85.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1852.

LONDON:

Printed by SAMUEL BENTLEY and Co.

Bangor House, Shoe Lane,

CONTENTS.

PREFATORY DEDICATION

CHAPTER I.

Visit to Maynooth.-Bog of Allen.-Election War-

fare.-Effects of Evictions. - Present and Prospective

Condition of Ireland

CHAPTER II.

Expectation of Transatlantic Traffic.-Sale of Encum-

bered Estates.-Reflections on Famine.-Irish Repartee.

Clifden Workhouse and Church. - English Settle-

ments. - Irish Heath. The Killaries. — Melwrea.

Scenery of Beanabrack

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CHAPTER III.

Maum Turc.-A Cairn.-Bed of St. Patrick.-The

Martin Domain.-Dreary Scenery.-The Bogs.-Suspi-

cious-looking Lough. The Twelve Pins. A Fair

Mountaineer. Frequency of Rain and Rainbows

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CHAPTER IV.

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Anecdote of Brydone the Traveller. — Geological

Formations.-Best Route through Western Highlands.

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CHAPTER V.

Endowment of Irish Catholic Clergy.—Conduct of the

Irish Priests.-The Irish Episcopacy.-Southern and

Northern Students.-Burning the Bible.-St. Patrick

and his Saints.-Change in Episcopal Management.

Church Education Society.-Protestant Missions

CHAPTER VI.

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Priestly Aversion to Instruction.-Infallibility of the

Pope.-Pasquinades on the Pope.-Policy of Teaching

the Irish Language.-Welsh Language.-Flowers of

Irish Courtesy.-Future of the English Race.-Ameri-

can Homage to Shakspeare.-Shakspearian Idioms.-

American Missions in Koordistan. - Insidiousness of

Vatican Conclave.-Louis Napoleon

'CHAPTER VII.

Protestant Missions.-Forced Conversions.-Priestly

Interference with Women. -Witch-burning.-Protes-

tants of Western Highlands.—Irish Church in the Van

against Popery

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CHAPTER VIII.

The O'Neil Estate.-Lynch-law on Sheep-stealers.-

Starved Crow." A Hard Summer." - Famine Scenes

in India.-Musings on Famine.-Civilization in India.

-Anecdote of Mr. Martin

CHAPTER IX.

Affairs of Honour.-Wellington and Duty.-Character

of Mr. Richard Martin.-Gensdarmerie at a Shipwreck.

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-Louis Napoleon.-Presentation to Pius VII.-Anec-

dote of an Eton Examination

CHAPTER X.

Ballinahinch House.-Enactment for Planting Trees.

-Quarries.-Emigrants.—A Mist.-Beggars.-Improv-

ability of Connemara

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Estates Act.-

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New Proprietary. Ulster Escheated

Estates.-Irish Constabulary.-James's proposed Plan-

tation in Connaught.-Mean Conduct of James II.-

Mr. Martin's Act unnecessary.-Advantages of present

Proprietors

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CHAPTER XII.

England's Exertions in favour of Ireland.-Ireland

not over-populous now.. - The Future of Ireland. -

Effects of the Irish Poor Law.-Impotency of Criminal

Law.-Priestly Influence.-Weakness of Laws.-Pre-

ventives of Crime.-Mr. Pitt's Policy

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CHAPTER XIII.

Mr. Bright in Ireland.—Modern Justice to Ireland.—

Political Agitation dying away.-Supply of Clothing,

Glass, and Money-wages, recommended.-List of Griev-

ances abated.-Rent-paying Animals.-Hints for a Go-

vernment Settlement.-Relations between Landlord and

Tenant

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