Excerpt from Redmond Count O'hanlon, the Irish Rapparee: An Historical Tale The state of Ireland at this time, though not marked by the dreadful convulsions which had wasted and distracted it not long before, was still far from being peaceful or settled. Property was very unsafe; for although the turbulent outrages that had spread about desolation upon a more fearful scale, had somewhat diminished, still there were too many of those violent and lawless spirits abroad to allow the peacable and quiet, especially if they possessed wealth or property, to sleep in their beds with anything like a sense of security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.