The King the Kaiser And Irish Freedom
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So he has cut his throat at last ! He ! Who ? The man who cut his country's long ago. " Fourteen new government places were created for Irish members. Thirty-two new peers were created, every one being an Irish member of the House of Commons who had voted for the Act of Union. Something like $2, 500, 000 was spent in bribery by the Crown agents. The salaried places given to deserting opposition members amounted to $340, 000 per annum. Sixty-one titles were granted. Of the 162 men who voted for ...the union, 116 held government places by 1803, and 34 bought fine estates.
After the Young Irelanders were driven to death or prisons in 1848, the leaders were John Sadlier of Tipperary and William Keogh of Athlone. The first was a banker, the second a lawyer. The two led the Catholic defense move- ment and were alluded to sarcastically by the English papers as the "Pope's Brass Band. " The pair were strict Constitutionalists, viewed with suspicion by the crushed remnants of the revolu- [i79] THE KING, THE KAISER, AND IRISH FREEDOM tion, but as reactions always follow revolutions, the patriots could only look on.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
So he has cut his throat at last ! He ! Who ? The man who cut his country's long ago. " Fourteen new government places were created for Irish members. Thirty-two new peers were created, every one being an Irish member of the House of Commons who had voted for the Act of Union. Something like $2, 500, 000 was spent in bribery by the Crown agents. The salaried places given to deserting opposition members amounted to $340, 000 per annum. Sixty-one titles were granted. Of the 162 men who voted for ...the union, 116 held government places by 1803, and 34 bought fine estates.
After the Young Irelanders were driven to death or prisons in 1848, the leaders were John Sadlier of Tipperary and William Keogh of Athlone. The first was a banker, the second a lawyer. The two led the Catholic defense move- ment and were alluded to sarcastically by the English papers as the "Pope's Brass Band. " The pair were strict Constitutionalists, viewed with suspicion by the crushed remnants of the revolu- [i79] THE KING, THE KAISER, AND IRISH FREEDOM tion, but as reactions always follow revolutions, the patriots could only look on.
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