Excerpt from Our Nationalities, Vol. 1: Who Are the Irish?Is the question one of Birth, or Blood If birth, the son of Irish parents, when he chanced to be born while his mother was visiting England, never gained the coveted rights, while the equally fortuitous birth of another in Erin, though of English parentage, procured for him the privileges.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.