Excerpt from The Life's Work in Ireland of a Landlord Who Tried to Do His Duty

In reading the following papers I must ask attention to the dates at which they were written, else it may be thought there are differences between them at some points. The subject-matter of all being the same, the same facts are now and then mentioned in different papers in a somewhat different point of view, suggested by the circumstances. Such repetitions could of course have been omitted, but the small differences seemed to give a reality to the whole, and besides, the points repeated are generally the turning-points of the subject.

In order to form a sound judgment, there are several matters that must be borne clearly in mind.

Fiction 1. That all Ireland is alike and in the same hopeless and distressful state. The real difficulty to be met is only in part of Connaught and some other remote and mountainous places, perhaps one-fourth of Ireland.

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