* Priest-ridden '
'It -is constantly said of the Irish,' says the noted - English author, Mr. 6. K. Chesterton, in his latest work (Orthodoxy), ' that they are impractical." But if we refrain for a ■ moment from looking at what is said about them, and look at what is done by them, wo snail see that the Irish are not only practical, but- quite painfully succossful. The poverty of their country, the minority of their mombers,. are simply the conditions under which they were -asked to work; but no other group in the British Empire has done so much with such conditions. The Nationalists were the only minority that ever succeeded' in twisting the whole British ..Parliament sharply out of its path.. The Irish peasants are the only'poor men in these islands who have forced thoir masters to 'disgorge. These people, whom we call pricst-riddon, u are tlie only Britons who will not be squire-ridden.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 209
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152* Priest-ridden ' New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 209
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