England and Ireland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from England and Ireland Introduction - The two islands of Great Britain and Ireland are separated by a channel so narrow as to compel their political association, and yet so wide as always to have prevented their complete union. Eng land was conquered by Rome, and received the impress of Roman civilization, but the Romans never at tempted to gain a footing in Ireland. England became Protestant at the Reformation, Ireland remained Catholic. England has gradually acquired liberty by the constitutional progress of her people, the consti tutional development of Ireland has been controlled and arrested by the jealousy of England. England has become commercial and industrial by the force of her natural resources and her geographical position, Ireland has remained almost wholly agricultural, partly because her mineral resources are inferior, partly because her efforts at domestic manufacture and foreign trade have in former times been sternly repressed by England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.