Irish Catholic regiments raised for service in Portugal 18

III. The landlords and the peasantry

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III. Alternatives before Lord Townshend

Purgation of the Board of Revenue and defeat of the

Justice to Ireland

Indiscipline of the army

IV. Price of Townshend's victory

Justice to Ireland again

V. Corruption and its effects

Fresh difficulties

Government relieved by Lord Shannon

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Responsibilities of an Irish Secretary

II. Lord Harcourt as Viceroy

Introduction to Irish public life

Proposed Absentee Tax .

III. Parliamentary manoeuvres

Breach of the woollen compact

English injustice and its effects on Irish character

IV. Mr. Henry Flood

Lord Harcourt's difficulties

Sympathy between the Irish Protestants and America

Loyalty of the Irish Catholics.

American tendencies of the Irish Parliament

Demands for justice

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England to be brought to a reckoning

II. The American War.

Surrender of General Burgoyne

War with France and Spain

III. American privateers in St. George's Channel

Mr. Grattan in the Irish Parliament

III. Progress of revolutionary sentiment in Ireland.

Difficulties in managing the Irish Parliament.

The Volunteers

Session of 1781

Mr. Flood

Siege of Gibraltar

Attack on Poynings' Act

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