llery, 188-191
Feb. 15, 192
London: Mr. Davitt, 192
Irish Woollen Company, 193
Mr. Davitt and Mr. Blunt, 193
Mr. Davitt's character and position, 192-199

CHAPTER VI.
Ennis, Feb. 18, 200
Return to Ireland, 200
Irish Nationalists, 200, 201
Home Rule and Protection, 202
Luggacurren and Mr. O'Brien, 204
Dublin to Limerick and Ennis, 204, 205
Colonel Turner, 205
Architecture of Ennis Courthouse--Resemblance
to White House, Washington, 206
Number of public-houses in Ennis, and in Ireland, 207, 208
Innkeepers of Milltown Malbay, 208,209
Father White (see Note E), 209
Sir Francis Head, 210, 211
Different opinions in Ennis, 212, 213
State of trade in Ennis, 213, 214
Edenvale, Heronry, 215 _seq._
Feb. 19, 215
The men of Ennis at Edenvale, 216
Killone Abbey, 218-221
Stephen J. Meany, 220
"Holy Well" of St. John, 221
Superstition as to rabbits, 222
Religious practices under Penal Laws, 222
Experiences under National League, 223, 224
Case of George Pilkington, 224-226
Trees at Edenvale, 227
Moonlighters, a reproduction of Whiteboys, 227, 228
Difficulty in getting men to work, 228
A testimonial to Mr. Austen Mackay, 229-232
Effect of testimonials, 232
Feb. 20, 232
The case of Mrs. Connell at Milltown Malbay, 232 _seq._
Estate accounts and prices, 240
A rent-warner, 245
Mr. Redmond, M.P., 245
Father White's Sermon, 246
A photograph, 246

APPENDIX.

NOTES--

A. Mr. Gladstone and the American War (Prologue xxix), 249
B. Mr. Parnell and the Dynamiters (Prologue xxxiii), 251
C. The American "Suspects" of 1881 (Prologue xlvii), 255
D. The Parnellites and the English Parties (Prologue l.), 262
E. The "Boycott" at Miltown-Malbay (p. 209) 264

PROLOGUE.

I.

This book is a record of things seen, and of conversations had, during a
series of visits to Ireland between January and June 1888.

These visits were made in quest of light, not so much upon the
proceedings and the purposes of the Irish "Nationalists,"--with which,
on both sides of the Atlantic, I have been tolerably familiar for many
years past--as upon the social and economical results in Ireland of the
processes of political vivisection to which that country has been so
long subjected.

As these results primarily concern Great Britain and British subjects,
and as a well-founded and reasonable jealousy exists in Great Britain of
American int