Excerpt from Journals, Conversations and Essays Relating to Ireland, Vol. 1 of 2 The combinations and the trades-unions are little less ferocious than they were in 1838. Ire land is still governed by two codes, dissimilar, and often Opposed: one deriving its validity from Acts of Parliament, and maintained by the magis trate - the other laid down by the tenants, and enforced by assassination. It is important that the details of the latter code should be known. It is important that an Irish landlord should know what kind of management of his property is safe, what is hazardous, and what is certainly fatal. Some information on these points will be found in these Journals. N early all the persons whose conversations I extract, were owners or managers of land. They relate their own experience. They tell us what is the conduct which an Irish tenant approves - what he will tolerate, what he will resent, and what he will punish. 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.