Part 1 — CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER I
THE ENGLISH MISUNDERSTANDING.
Fidelity of the Irish to the National Ideal
Disregard of Material Advantage in its Pursuit
Home Rule Movement under Gladstone
The Anti-Climax under Lord Rosebery
The Logic of Events and the Dawn of the Practical
The Mutual Misunderstanding of England and Ireland
The Dunraven Conference produces a Revolution in English Thought about Ireland
The Actual Change Examined
Future Misunderstanding best averted by considering Nature of Anti-English Feeling
Illustration from Irish-American Life
Importance of Sentiment in Ireland—English Habit of Ignoring
Historical Grievances Still Operative
The Commercial Restrictions—Remaining Effects of
Irish Land Tenure—Lord Dufferin on
Defects of Land Laws—Their Effect on Agriculture
Right Attitude towards Historic Grievances
Plea for Broader and more Philosophic View of Irish Question
Simple Explanations and Panaceas Deprecated
A Many-Sided Human Problem