The Irish Sketch-book

The Irish Sketch Book. by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh. [William Makepeace Thackeray]. With numerous engravings on wood drawn by the author. First published in
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The Irish Sketch-Book

British Library holds among miscellaneous and add. Appleton , and Do. Routledge , vi, pp. Appleton , 12o. The Adventures of Mr James Freney ; reps.

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Kilkenny, and lived to serve repentently working for the muncipality of Ross harbour. In his Introduction to Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture London: Melissa Fegan , review of William H. Williams, Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character: Thackeray, on his first day in Dublin, was bemused by an announcement in the Morning Register about the consecration of the Bishop of Aureliopolis by the Pope: Alan Sutton , p.

The picaresque and mischievous narrative that Thackeray did produce, entitled The Irish Sketchbook , proved to be an immediate success in London following its publication in May All the rest of the pleasures of the evening are importations from Cockneyland.


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The Truth [ s ] about Ireland: Or rather, there are two truths, the Catholic truth and the Protestant truth. The two parties do not see things with the same eyes. I recollect, for instance, a Catholic gentleman telling me that the Primate had forty-three thousand five hundred a year; a Protestant clergyman gave me, chapter and verse, the history of a shameful perjury and malversation of money on the part of a Catholic priest nor was one tale more true than the other.

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Ask about an estate, you may be sure almost that people will make misstatements, or volunteer them if not asked. Ask a cottager about his rent, or his landlord; you cannot trust him.

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I shall never forget the glee with which a gentleman in Munster told me how he had sent off MM. Tocqueville and Beaumont with such a set of stories. And how are we to trust philosophers who make theories upon such data? Meanwhile it is satisfactory to know, upon testimony so general as to be equivalent almost to fact, that, wretched as it is, the country is steadily advancing, nor nearly so wretched now as it was a score of years since, and let us hope that the middle class, which this increase of prosperity must generate and of which our laws have hitherto forbidden the existence in Ireland, making there a population of Protestant aristocracy and Catholic peasantry , will exercise the greatest and most beneficial influence over the country.

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Too independent to be bullied by priest or [] squire - having their interest in quiet, and alike indisposed to servility or rebellion; may not as much be hoped from the gradual formation of such a class as from any legislative meddling? It is the want of the middle class that has rendered the squire so arrogant and the clerical or political demagogue so powerful; and I think Mr.

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