Excerpt from Modern Ireland: Its Vital Questions, Secret Societies, and Government Very little change is necessary to make this accu rately descriptive of the present state of things. Although there have been no general calamities on which to charge part of the blame, the most indus trions and energetic of the land-cultivators are flying from a country intrinsically rich, where an artifi cial system of land-laws has made prosperity impos sible for them. That Ireland has again become bold and daring is a fact which ought not to be more clear than that the same cause has led to it, which in 1779 produced it. 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.