school-geography

Updated: May 2, 2025

Granting the truth of this which we by no means do, every school-geography written by whatever hand attesting the contrary to-day where would have been the wonder that they, subjected so long to an unbending harshness and never-slumbering tyranny, accustomed to those continual "domiciliary visits" so common in Ireland during the whole of last century, dragged so often before the courts of "justice," to be there insulted, falsely accused, harshly tried and convicted without proof were obliged to be continually on their guard, to observe a deep reserve, the very opposite to the promptings of their genial nature, to return ambiguous answers, full, by the way, of natural wit and marvellous acuteness?

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present