304

No. 47.--The Loyalists and the Lawless Clones, July 13th 310

No. 48.--A Search for "Orange Rowdyism" Belfast, July 15th 317

No. 49.--The Constitution of the
Orange Lodges Portadown, July 18th 324

No. 50.--The Hollowness of Home Rule Warrenpoint, July 20th 331

No. 51.--The Irish Press on "Finality" Strabane, July 22nd 337

No. 52.--How the Priests Control
the People Raphoe, Co. Donegal, July 25th 345

No. 53.--What they think in County
Donegal Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, July 27th 351

No. 54.--A Sample of Irish "Loyalty" Killygordon, July 29th 358

No. 55.--A Truly Patriotic Priest Donegal, August 1st 365

No. 56.--Do-Nothing Donegal Donegal, August 3rd 371

No. 57.--Barefooted and Dilatory Ballyshannon, August 5th 378

No. 58.--The Truth about Bundoran Sligo, August 8th 383

No. 59.--Irish Nationalism is not
Patriotism Birmingham, August 11th 390

No. 60.--Land Hunger: its Cause,
Effect, and Remedy Birmingham, August 14th 396

No. 61.--Clerical Domination and its
Consequences Birmingham, August 16th 403

No. 62.--Civil War a certainty of
Home Rule Birmingham, August 18th 409

[For a General Index the reader is referred to the end of the
volume.]

IRELAND AS IT IS

AND AS IT WOULD BE

UNDER HOME RULE.

IRELAND AS IT IS

AND AS IT WOULD BE

UNDER HOME RULE

No. 1.--THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPITAL.

By the Spirit of the Capital I do not mean, as an Irishman would tell
you, Jameson's whiskey, nor yet the vivifying soul of Guinness's
double stout, but the mental posture of the dwellers in Dublin with
reference to Home Rule. There can be no doubt of the interest
prevailing in the Irish metropolis. The people are wrought into a
fever-heat of expectancy and intense nervous excitement. Home Rule is
the only topic of conversation. In hotels, on the steamers, in railway
carriages, on tramcars, in the market-place, on the steps of the
temples, at the corners of the streets, in the music halls, the
wondering stranger hears of Home Rule, Home Rule, Home Rule, first,
last, midst, and without end.

Obviously so much discussion shows difference of opinion, divergency
of conception, conflicti