The book Ireland Under Coercion; the Diary of An American was written by author Hurlbert William Henry Here you can read free online of Ireland Under Coercion; the Diary of An American book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Ireland Under Coercion; the Diary of An American a good or bad book?
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It is certainly a curious fact that, so far, in Ireland I have seen no decent cottages for labourers, excepting those put up at their own expense on their own property by landlords. I dined to-night at the County Club with Captain Plunkett, a most energetic, spirited, and well-informed resident magistrate, a brother of the late Lord Louth, — still remembered, I dare say, at the New York Hotel as the only Briton who ever really mastered the mystery of concocting a " cocktail,"— and an uncle of t...he present peer. We had a very cheery dinner, and a very clever lawyer, Mr. Shannon, gave us an irresistible reproduction of a charge delivered by an Irish judge famous for shoot- ing over the heads of juries, who sent twelve worthy citizens of Galway out of their minds by bidding them remember, in a case of larceny, that they could not find the prisoner guilty unless they were quite sure " as to the animus furandi and the asportavit." Saturday, Feb. 25. — I had an interesting talk this morning at the County Club with a gentleman from Limerick on the subject of "boycotting." I told him what I had seen at Edenvale of the practice as applied to a forlorn and helpless old woman, for the crime of stand- ing by her " boycotted " son.
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