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Identifier: worldhistoricala00gilb (find matches)
Title: The world: historical and actual
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gilbert, Frank, 1839-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Chicago, Fairbanks & Palmer publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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en godspeed there, is a difference largely dueto different economical conditions and circumstancesof nature. The London Times, thus briefly sums up the Irishland bill, which became a law in August. 1881, afterone of the most memorable of parliamentary strug-gles, extending over seven months : It gives the tenant farmers all, and more than all may not be excluded from the benefits of the bill.It greatly enlarges the opportunities for the creationof peasant proprietory with the aid of public funds.The chief cities of Ireland are Dublin, Belfast,Cork, Limerick. Londonderry and Queenstown. Theriver Liffey, flowing through Dublin, divides it intotwo nearly equal parts. The population is about350,000. The former capitol of Ireland, situatedthere, is now used as a bank building. Belfast, 100miles north of Dublin, is the chief city of the Prot-estant portion of the island. It has nearly 200,000inhabitants, very few of them being Romanists.Linen manufactories were established there as earlv TH
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IRELAND AND THE IRISH. 393 as 1637. It is still the center of Irish textilemanufactures. Cork is almost wholly Catholic, andits manufactures are glass and other minor staples.It is situated 136 miles southwest of Dublin and hasan excellent harbor. Limerick has the honor of be-ing the last place to surrender to William III., in1691, on which occasion it secured important con-cessions for the Catholics within its limits. It is thechief city of Munster. Londonderry, like Belfast, isin the north of Ireland, and an important center ofProtestant influence. It was once a fortified town.Very many of the people are of Scotch descent. Trinity College, Dublin, is the principal universityof Ireland. It was founded in 1320, but it fell intodecay, until revived by Queen Elizabeth in 1593.Her successor, James I., granted it representation inparliament, and munificent endowments. It is avery rich institution and its rank is with the bestuniversities of Europe. Among its graduates arenumbered Swift, G

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