Excerpt from The New Movement in Ireland: Address by the Right Hon. Horace Plunkett, M. P., Before the Economic Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 27th October, 1898 Of the first policy, Cromwell was the chief exponent. Had a succession of Cromwells - and it would not have taken a long dynasty to complete the work - wiped out the Irish, England would have had to reckon with the hostility of a world-wide race, clannish and homeless as the Jews. But on the other hand, an Anglicised Ireland would have been a strength and a protection to the British Empire. As it was, the soldier, the capitalist, and the working man' were driven out to lead hostile armies and build up rival industries in foreign lands. In Ireland itself an oppressed residuum was left to breed swarms of poor, ignorant, Celtic peasantry, whose not imaginary grievances have long been, and may at any moment become again, the disturbing factor in the home politics of the British Empire. 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.