ishermen went to the west
coast of Ireland they would be able to get on in harmony with the
native fishermen?"

Mr. Ennis--"We know the fact to be, that some years ago, a company was
established for the purpose of trawling in Galway Bay, and what was the
consequence? The Irish fishermen, who inhabit a region in the
neighbourhood of Galway, called Claddagh, turned out against them, and
would not allow them to trawl, and the Englishmen very properly went
away with their lives."

Sir Rowland Hill--"Then they will neither fish themselves nor allow any
one else to fish!"

Mr. Ennis--"It seems to be so."--Minutes of Evidence, 175-6.

[13] The Derry Journal.

[14] Report of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries for 1882.

[15] The Report of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries on the Sea and
Inland Fisheries of Ireland for 1882, gives a large amount of
information as to the fish which swarm round the Irish coast. Mr. Brady
reports on the abundance of herring and other fish all round the coast.
Shoals of herrings "remained off nearly the entire coast of Ireland
from August till December." "Large shoals of pilchards" were observed
on the south and south-west coasts. Off Dingle, it is remarked, "the
supply of all kinds of fish is practically inexhaustible."

"Immense shoals of herrings off Liscannor and Loop Head;" "the
mackerel is always on this coast, and can be captured at any time of
the year, weather permitting." At Belmullet, "the shoals of fish off
the coast, particularly herring and mackerel, are sometimes enormous."
The fishermen, though poor, are all very orderly and well conducted.
They only want energy and industry.

[16] The Harleian Miscellany, iii. 378-91.

[17] The Harleian Miscellany, iii. 392.

[18] See The Huguenots in England and Ireland. A Board of Traders, for
the encouragement and promotion of the hemp and flax manufacture in
Ireland, was appointed by an Act of Parliament at the beginning of last
century (6th October, 1711), and the year after the appointment of the
Board the following notice was placed on the records of the
institution:--"Louis Crommelin and the Huguenot colony have been
greatly instrumental in improving and propagating the flaxen
manufacture in the north of this Kingdom, and the perfection to which
the same is brought in that part of the country has been greatly owing
to the skill and industry of the said Crommelin." In a history of the
linen trade, published at Belfast, it is sa