'AN IMPEACHED NATION'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, 22 April 1909, Page 610

'AN IMPEACHED NATION'

A REVIEW

/ The following notice of the Neio Zealand Tablet's latest publication appeared in the Melbourne Advocate of April 3 : — ~

, An Impeached Nation. By H. W. Cleary, D.D. (Dunedin, _the New Zealand "Tablet Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd., 4s 6d.) In a sub-title, Dr. Cleary described his book as ' a study of Irish outrages,' and it can safely be said that he will receive the thanks of Irishmen at home and abroad for the valuable .result of .his ' studies.' The volume is a large one of 417 pages, and one is filled with wonder and admiration at the patience, research, and industry that it displays. Dr. Cleary must have been, -y eal "s carefully laying aside material for this splendid work. It is surprisingly exhaustive. Irish journalists, have spent whole lifetimes in contradicting or exr, plaining 'Irish outrages,' of which we- read "every week in the English newspapers, and so frequently in the ' cable news ' .of Australian papers. Dr. Cleary has crumbled to dust the monuments of Irish crime built up by the imagination or animus of newspaper correspondents acting__for Tory newspapers in London. At the end of the work is a general index and an index of authorities, which enable one to discover in an instant a particular episode or incident, or the exact, words of some weighty authority. It is not too much to say that Dr. Cleary has laid the whole Irish race under a great obligation to him for this book. It is a vindication of the whole Irish character, and is a valuable contribution to Home Rule literature. We shall not be surprised to find it quoted frequently in the House of Commons. Every Irishman and every Irishwoman who loves truth and rhates the iniquity of misrepresentation ought to have a copy by them. The book is sure to have a great circulation. Dr. Cleary is to be warmly congratulated on the completion of a work which must" "have cost him maiiy an hour of anxious labor, snatched fro-n a thousand duties of even more pressing importance.