n McCarthy's Reply
Mr. Redmond's Reply
Formation of the Committee
Investigations on the Continent
Recommendations of the Committee
Position of the Nationalist Members of the Committee
Chief Reliance on Local Effort
Public Opinion on the New Proposals
Adoption of the Bill to give effect to them
Mr. Gerald Balfour's Policy
Industrial Home Rule

CHAPTER IX.

A NEW DEPARTURE IN IRISH ADMINISTRATION.

Functions and Constitution of the New Department
How it is Financed
The Representative Element in its Constitution
The Right to Vote Supplies
Consultative Committee on Education
The Department Linked with the Local Government System
Successful Co-operation with Local Government Bodies
And with Voluntary Societies
The New Department and the Congested Districts Board
The Reception of the Department by the Country
Some Typical Callers
A Wrong Impression Anticipated

CHAPTER X.

GOVERNMENT WITH THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.

Summary of Previous Chapter
The Attitude of the People towards the Department
Method of Co-operation with Local Bodies
State-Aid, Direct and Indirect
The Department and the Large Towns
The Department's Plans for Developing Agriculture
The Industrial Problem and Education
The Difficulty of Finding Trained Teachers
How Surmounted
Difficulties of Agricultural Education
Decision to Adopt Itinerant Instruction
Double Purpose of this Instruction
Relation of the Department with Secondary Schools
Importance of Domestic Economy Teaching
Provision of Teachers in Domestic Economy
Miscellaneous Industries
Competition of the Factory
The Department's Fabian Policy Justified
Its Support by the Country
Improvement of Live-Stock
Best Method of giving Object Lessons in Agriculture
Sea Fisheries
Continental Tours for Irish Teachers
Cork Exhibition of 1902
Things and Ideas
Concluding Words

INDEX

PART I.

_THEORETICAL_.

"It is hard to say where history ends, and where religion and
politics begin; for history, religion and politics grow on one stem
in Ireland, an eternal trefoil."--_Lady Gregory_.

CHAPTER I.

THE ENGLISH MISUNDERSTANDING.

Whatever may be the ultimate verdict of history upon the long struggle
of the majority of the Irish people for self-government, the picture of
a small country with large aspirations giving of its best unstintingly
to the w