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Title: Disturbed Ireland
Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

Author: Bernard H. Becker

Release Date: September 2, 2006 [EBook #19160]

Language: English

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DISTURBED IRELAND:

BEING THE LETTERS
WRITTEN DURING THE WINTER OF 1880-81.

BY
BERNARD H. BECKER,
_SPECIAL COMMISSIONER OF THE "DAILY NEWS."_

WITH ROUTE MAPS.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1881.

LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFACE.

Having been most cordially granted permission to republish these
letters in a collected form, it is my duty to mention that my mission
from the _Daily News_ was absolutely unfettered, either by
instructions or introductions. It was thought that an independent and
impartial account of the present condition of the disturbed districts
of Ireland would be best secured by sending thither a writer without
either Irish politics or Irish friends--in short, one who might occupy
the stand-point of the too-often-quoted "intelligent foreigner." Hence
my little book is purely des