Download or read book Irishmen All (Classic Reprint) written by George A. Birmingham and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irishmen All My first meeting with Bates remains a vivid mem ory. I had never come into contact with a high official before. I am ashamed to say that I did not at that time realise the importance of the class. I supposed then, as many other innocent people did and still do, that Chief Secretaries and Lords Lieutenant not only appear to govern, but really do govern, Ireland. I supposed that they were more or less responsible to public opinion, at all events to the opinion of members of their own party. My meeting with Bates taught me better. 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.