LECTURE ON IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 12, 16 July 1886, Page 13

LECTURE ON IRELAND.

one break and the flufncy of his uVance anVtl taS^fafi? ludes m which he indulged, disclosed a born orator He bLJn^l* pointing out that the Irish question was not a CathSic one aSTtIS after 300 years of the same treatment. Coming to the naturaf^n ages of the country, the lecturer pointed out that Ireland *b2 I sendM harbours, and grand rivers and canals. It was a count!? SSf ? fertility, and had coal and iron in abundance, and in wfcL w ? 'th« old women filled their aprons with gold" If Home ££ granted, everyone would be" going back there to dig toit iihS" too, was great by reason of her intellectual superiority and hid Si' "E.leen Aroon." (Song, Mrs. Swinburne, » EJeen Aroon '• Tm SS tOf t t S 6ir £ WD ?? airß ' and t0 return t0 *™ 'he land SSX confiscated. He then gave a history of Q rattan 'g Parliament which commenced in 1782 and lasted 18 years and showed h?S results then accomplished what great benefits would be Ichieved by self-government. Space prevents us from giving more thin the above brief outhoe of the lecture, which was Ltened to w ?h «£t Star A V ° te ° f tbSnkß tO the Mayor closed the Pwoeedinga^-awiv»