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Barrington, Sir Jonah, LL.D., K.C. Rise and Fall of The Irish Nation.
Dublin: James Duffy, MDCCCXLIII.
Octavo, green blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decoration to spine, tissue-protected frontis., xxiv + 588 pp. Sunning to spine and edges; edgwear including fraying; chipping to tissue protecting frontis; foxing to endpapers; interior clean & tight. From Prefatory Observations: More than thirty summers have now passed by, since that disastrous measure, called a legislative Union, extinguished at one blow, the pride, the prosperity, and the Independence of the Irish Nation. A measure whic, under false colours of guarding for ever against a disunion of the Empire, has taken the longest and surest stride to lead it to dismemberment. A measure which, instead of consolidating the strength and resource of the Empire, as treacherously expressed from the Throne of the Viceroy, has, through its morbind operation, paralysed the resources of Ireland; whilst England is exhausting her own strength, squandering her own treasures, and clipping her own constitution, to uphold a measure, effected by corruption, and maintained by oppression...
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