THE SCOT IN ULSTER

THE GREAT PLANTATION IN ULSTER

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CHAPTER III.

IT is beyond measure refreshing, after toiling through tiresome volumes in which a narrow streamlet of text finds its way through a perfect quagmire of notes, and which are so full of facts that they conceal the truth, to turn from them and let the eye wander through some chapters of 'The Fortunes of Nigel.' It is like a draught of sparkling ale after a long and dusty tramp: life comes dancing back again through the veins; the eye once more has power to enjoy the glare of heaven's light. The weary mind is in touch with something human; it realises the fact that the men who made history in James I.'s time were made of flesh and blood; that they did not act like machines, but were partly good and partly bad--certainly not the fiends that Irish patriots have painted, devouring the innocent chiefs of Ulster, who, it must be understood, need to be pictured like lambs in one of Caldecott's picture-...continue reading »

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The Scot in Ulster:
Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster

by John Harrison

1888