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THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND,
AS CONTAINING
SOME FACTS NOT ALTOGETHER UNSERVICEABLE
TO THE CAUSE OF
VOLUNTARYISM AND REPEAL,
AND SOME DEFENCE OF IRISH MILITARY HONOUR
FROM ENGLISH AND ANGLO-IRISH
MISREPRESENTATION,
THIS MISCELLANY
IS INSCRIBED
BY THEIR COUNTRYMAN,
THE AUTHOR.
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8-15-42
Epistle from Dr. Southey, Poet Laureate and author of the Book
of the Church, to the Editor of the Parson's Horn-Book.......42
Impromptu, written at the time of the Anglesey Proclamations, &c..46
Let fanatics murmur at life. A Song...
A Character....
Epigram
The Parson's "Horn of Chase." A Parody..
Anacreontic
..46
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.57
Epigram, on reading the Marquis of Londonderry's speech, &c.....51
A Valentine...
Words for Music..
On an improvident Vocalist...
David's lament over Saul and Jonathan...
To *****..
Impromptu, on seeing a Reverend Dignitary of the Establishment
beating some poor boys from behind his carriage............................
Nabis and the Union. (Written upon the passing of the Irish
The Episcopal Mammoth, alias A-x-d-r the “Great”—of Meath.
A Parody......
...60
Song for United Irishmen, or Irishmen United....
63
Dear isle of my birth, ere I sail from thy shores..
..67
.77
Epigram, on a ruby-visaged friend rather partial to his tumbler......78
War song of the Irish Bards before the Battle of Clontarf.
...88
Farewell to my Book..
..93
POSTSCRIPT
TO DR. SOUTHEY'S EPISTLE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE PARSON'S
HORN BOOK.
Reasons for the necessity of substituting state-supported churches
in every country by the "voluntary system," and more particu-
larly in Ireland-Origin of the general diffusion of hostility to
the Irish Church and tithe-system by the formation of the society
of the original Comet Club, and the publication of the Parson's
Horn-Book and Comet-Plan of operations against the Church
adopted by the Club, and its great success-Prosecution and
true causes of the extinction of the Comet-Correction of the
misinformation of the Quarterly Review respecting the two socie-
ties of the Comet Club and the Irish Brigade...
.9"
TO "DAVID'S LAMENT."
David's Lament and Wolfe's Lines on Sir John Moore-Critical
defect of the latter as compared with the former poem, and the
other chief remains of Hebrew song on important national events
-Obscurity of Wolfe's lines particularly demonstrated by their
translation into French by Father Prout-Fittest place for those
lines in a biography of Sir John Moore, or some future standard
History of England, on the model of the modern French histo-
rians, Michaud, Barante, and Thierry-Historical use of national
songs-Geddes's critical version of, and comments upon, David's
elegy-Concluding remarks on the monotonous spirituality of
Hebrew poetry...
PAGE
.117
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66 TO NABIS AND THE UNION."
CHAPTER I.
Historical sketch of, and resemblance between, Scotch and Irish
Anti-Unionism, and remarkable official testimony to the pre-
dominance of Anti-Union sentiments in Ireland...
CHAPTER II.
...137
Inquiry, as regards the idea of maintaining a Union by force, into
the number of Irish who died in the British army and navy
during the last half century, and likewise into the comparative
military qualities of the British and Irish people.....
CHAPTER III.
Statement (in reference to the same idea of a Union) of the com-
parative size, in geographical square miles, of Ireland, and the
principal states of Europe, with a view of her great natural capa-
bilities for being a maritime power, and the peculiar military
strength of her territory, as combined with the large amount of
her population, and illustrated by a plan of defensive operations,
based on Napoleon principles.....
CHAPTER IV.
Examination of the assertion of Voltaire and others, that the Irish
"have always fought badly at home," and confutation of that
assertion, by an account of what men, and how much domestic
dissension and money enabled England to terminate the Eliza-
bethian and Cromwellian wars...
144
..156
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