And how can any Irishman, no matter what his state in his own country may be, or his knowledge of Irish affairs, or his patriotic earnestness and desire for Irish prosperity, hope to control the tides of party spirit in England or Scotland?
Of the influence upon the people in Ireland of the spirit of recent legislation for Ireland, the story of the troubles on the O'Grady estate, as Mr.Kavanagh tells it to me, is a most striking illustration.
"The O'Grady of Kilballyowen," as his title shows, is the direct representative, not of any Norman invader, but of an ancient Irish race.
The O'Gradys were the heads of a sept of the "mere Irish"; and if there be such a thing--past, present, or future--as an "Irish nation," the place of the O'Gradys in that nation ought to be assumed.

Mr.Thomas De Courcy O'Grady, who now wears the historic designation, owns and lives on an estate of a little more than 1000 acres, in the Golden Vein of Ireland, at Killmallock, in the county of Limerick.

The land is excellent, and for the last half-century certainly it has been let to the tenants at rents which must be considered fair, since they have never been raised.

In 1845, two years before the great famine, the rental was L2142.

This rental was paid throughout the famine years without difficulty; and in 1881 the rental stood at L2108.
There has never been an eviction on the estate until last year, when six tenants were evicted.