The book A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century was written by author Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903 Here you can read free online of A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century a good or bad book?
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Besides the public concerts, there are several private ones, where the performers are gentle- men and ladies of such good skill that one would imagine the god of music had taken a large stride from the Continent over England to this island; for indeed the whole nation are of late become admirers of this enter- tainment, and those who have no ear for music are generally so polite as to pretend to like it. A stranger is agreeably surprised to find in many houses he enters Italic airs saluting his... ears, and it has been observed that Corelli is a name in more mouths than many of our Lord lieutenants.' ^ » Smith's Hist, of Cork, i. 400. Digitized by Google I CH. II. UMERICE. 843 Of the other county towns the most important were Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny. The first, in the middle of the eighteenth century, is said to have con- tained 3,959 houses.^ It was divided, like many Irish cities, into an English and an Irish town. It retained a stronger Milesian character than any other consider- able centre out of Connaught, and travellers found much in the customs of its inhabitants that reminded them of Spain.2 The provision of the penal code which forbade Catholics from residing in Limerick without special per- mission, speedily became a dead letter.
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