The Government of Ireland Past Present And Prospective
The Government of Ireland Past Present And Prospective
Samuel H. Lloyd
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England found a market for her fabrics, a recruiting field for her army, a partner in her public burthens, and by making absenteeism a necessity among the wealthy classes who were members of the Houses of Parliament, and the train who followed them, she drew from Ireland an annual tribute of five or six millions of rent. She enjoyed a monopoly of the public patronage, the chief offices paid by Irish taxes were filled by English functionaries. But for the other partner it was a disastrous compac...t. " When legislative independence was secured by Grattan the woollen trade revived, and though the population was only 4, 000, 000, yet 150, 000 were employed in silk and woollen manufactures. In 1 84 1, though the population had then increased to more than 8, 000, 000, yet the artisans employed in these trades had become fewer than 8, 000. The mills in the provincial towns had all closed ; in Dublin, where 90 master manu- facturers had given employment to 5, 000 artisans, the number of manufacturers had diminished to 12, and the workmen were under 700.
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