Loading Search

• Buy this Book
• Book Creators
• Related Blog Posts
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. An Enemy Of His People. The succeeding days were the most intense and startling that Michael had yet lived. It was made to appear by every effort of mean minds and lying tongues that ... More

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. An Enemy Of His People. The succeeding days were the most intense and startling that Michael had yet lived. It was made to appear by every effort of mean minds and lying tongues that he had done a disgraceful thing. The looks of those he met were averted in disdain. The people who came into the shop, Volunteers and the rest, hurried out as soon as they had made their purchases, or dropped the observations they had come to make about the weather or the state of Ireland. It would appear, from the papers of the time, that a most determined attempt had been made all over Ireland to destroy any hope of extending into reality the great thing he had seen in the middle of his mind. But all Ireland seemed vastly delighted with itself because of the part it had played. There was so much blather about "a Nation's will" that one might be almost induced to think that Ireland had at last come into possession of a will.... Of course, Ballycullen stood by the Defence Committee it had elected, and added its quota to this awful power, but Michael could not suddenly become aware of anything noble in the air around him. It rather seemed filled with the odour of pride, a kind of blood-begotten stench which had been wafted across Ireland from the European war. The situation was well epitomised in the fact that the feelings of Ireland were about to express themselves in the largest subscription that Ireland had ever seen. It seemed particularly fitting, indeed, in spite of its irony, that the depth and degree of Ireland's present hatred for England should be expressed in terms of the money that had been made out of England through the war. The blood of Ireland was to be spared through sheer dint of blood-money, for nothing that England had done heretofore had, to such an ...

You must be a member of JacketFlap to add a video to this page. Please Log In or Register.