Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First American Edition of the Works of the Rev. D. W. Cahill, D.D: The Highly Distinguished Irish Priest, Patriot and Scholar; Containing a Brief Sketch of His Life
WE present to public attention, in book form, the Letters, Discourses, Responses and Controversial Ser mons of that eminent Divine and Scholar, the rev. D. W. Cahill, whose eloquent and manly voice and pen, have, like the bursting thunderbolt, cast dis may and confusion among the ranks of his country's Oppressors and persecutors - When pestilence, plagues and famine, and an unfeeling and tyrannical Govern ruent and its subservient agents, had swept Ireland of millions of its bravest sons and daughters, and le velled their humble habitations to the earth - when annihilation would seem inevitable - then in Ireland's supposed weakness, degradation and humility, her heartless despoilers would feign re -enact and legalize a new edition of the desecrated Penal Laws, which have crimsoned Ireland's verdant soil with blood. 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.
